Johan Cruyff: the revolutionary who changed how the world saw football
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/mar/24/johan-cruyff-revolutionary-changed-football-richard-williams Slender, swift and lithe, the Dutch master saw football fundamentally as a creative activity, and used his awe-inspiring talent to change the game for good by Richard Williams If a single moment could be said to have changed the way a generation looked at football, it was the turn with which Johan Cruyff bamboozled the Swedish defender Jan Olsson in the 23rd minute of a group match during the 1974 World Cup finals. The crowd at the Westfalenstadion in Dortmund rubbed their eyes, unable to believe what they had seen. But it was true. The Dutch No14 had used his right instep to turn the ball back inside his standing leg before spinning through 180 degrees and sprinting away towards the byline. He had left the tight-marking Swedish defender looking like a man tricked out of a fiver in a find-the-lady game. When he did the same thing in a 2-0 ...