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Ajax, Barcelona, Cruyff | 
 enlarge | Authors: Frits Barend, Henk Van Dorp
Creators: David Winner, Lex Van Dam
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 757736
Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0747543054
EAN: 9780747543053
ASIN: 0747543054
Publication Date: February 18, 1999
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Interviews with a footballing genius April 22, 2006
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Ajax, Barcelona, Cruyff is one of my favourite football books. It's fascinating to read Cruijff's opinions on football. They're so clear - he gets across in a sentence more than you'll ever hear from most footballers. Some of it is so simple, but it really makes sense. Just as an example, he says that the real indication of a good footballer isn't what he can do when he's got lots of space, it's what he can do with none. When I read that, Jack Charlton's "put 'em under pressure" tactics with Ireland, and images of Denis Bergkamp doing things with his first touch that most footballers can't in three come to mind. He says that a good footballer needs just two things - first touch and passing. Everything else is finesse. Think of how the Dutch at their best, or the Brazilians, or Barcelona play - they can all pass a team to death.
The book is written by a couple of Dutch journalists. Cruyff wasn't too generous with interviews - he would charge for them when he did them at all. He trusted the guys who wrote the book though, and they had more access to him than any other journalists. The material in the book comes from interviews with Cruijff over the years, and it makes for fascinating reading.
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