Today, April 25 2010, all of us at totalBarca would like to wholeheartedly wish a very delightful and happy 63rd birthday to Hendrik Johannes Cruijff with countless gratitude towards every accomplishments, big and small, that has been given by the influential Dutch to our beloved club FC Barcelona.
Johan Cruyff can be seen as the embodiment of the Barcelona philosophy, Mes que un club. He understood it, applied it, lived it, and helped enable others to embody it themselves. His many thinking points still ring true and his influence can still be felt and seen today in modern football, especially in FC Barcelona.
He played with such grace, technique, and accuracy that sports writer David Miller dubbed him as “Pythagoras in boots” for that qualities. As a player, he also helped perfect the technique now known as the “Cruyff turn”, made popular in the 1974 World Cup in West Germany.
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