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https://dutchsoccersite.org/rinus-michels-successful-without-johan-cruyff/ By Jan  - February 24, 2025 Home » Oranje Blog »  Rinus Michels started to get really annoyed with Johan Cruyff. The Ajax coach definitely enjoyed the presence of the young tactical wizard and it didn’t take long for the media to keep on repeating that Michels’ success came as a result of working with Johan… The Europa Cup with Ajax, the silver medal in 1974 with Oranje… The title with Barca. The successes in the US. And without JC, Michels has not really been too successful. Until 1988. Where the biggest success for Michels was not winning the finals, but in particular winning the semi finals against West Germany. After the heroic game in Hamburg, Michels sighed “Let’s hope that all those musings about 1974 will stop now…” Total Football, more and more seen as the product of the brain of Cruyff, is now for a while moved aside. He doesn’t just deal with the stories of a generation past, but also with ...

https://dutchsoccersite.org/memory-lane-oranjes-1990-world-cup-campaign/ Home » Oranje Blog » Memory Lane: Oranje’s 1990 World Cup campaign…. It’s a tradition I suppose. In the year of the World Cup, we do revisit the World Cups we have been to before… I realise I have started with the 1974 one, in this series… And I actually should have started with the pre WWII campaign we had… Later I suppose…. I’ll stick to the “modern times” for now. So here goes, by popular demand… What happened at (or rather: before) the WC1990. Well, it all started in 1988 of course. Van Basten & Co stunned the world. With Michels moving up from manager to federation official, former Feyenoord coach Thijs Libregts took the reigns . The ex-Excelsior and Feyenoord player had quite a reputation as a coach. Arrogant and authoritarian, he had a title to his name, but no one thought he actually won it… He was Feyenoord’s coach when Cruyff decided to avenge his departure at Ajax and JC (and Gullit, Houtman, Hoek...

https://www.amazon.it/Maestri-calcio-allenatori-stranieri-Portraits-ebook/dp/B01ARVU5JC di CHRISTIAN GIORDANO ©, Guerin Sportivo © Rainbow Sports Books © «Il calcio è guerra» disse durante il Mondiale del ’74 che lo consegnò alla storia. Dichiarazione non sorprendente per il “Generale”, come era chiamato per il look (capelli corti, sguardo fiero, mascella capelliana), i modi autoritari (che nascondevano un’indole anche goliardica e guscona) e l’amore per la disciplina, il grande teorizzatore della prima (e unica?) rivoluzione del pallone. Quella del Calcio Totale.  Marinus (Rinus) Jacobus Hendricus Michels, figlio di Piet e di Wil van Brederode, nasce il 9 febbraio 1928 ad Amsterdam, a due passi dall’Olympisch Stadion. Curiosamente, il destino che 19 anni dopo, ma a duecento metri dal De Meer (lo stadio dell’Ajax), toccherà al suo futuro pupillo Johan Cruijff.  Il vicinato tifa per il Blauw Wit (biancoblù), ma non il padre, innamorato dei biancorossi di ...