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Tuesday, March 24, 2020

How Johan Cruyff reinvented modern football at Barcelona

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Four years on from his passing, we look at the enduring legacy Johan Cruyff left at the Nou Camp – and what it means for football worldwide today
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We couldn’t believe how many attackers 
were in the team, and how few defenders. 
It was a revolution

- Barcelona midfielder Eusebio

I was criticised for playing three at the back, but that’s the most idiotic thing I’ve ever heard

- Johan Cruyff

I was here under the Franco dictatorship: 
I understand how Catalan people think

- Johan Cruyff

The ball was converted into the only protagonist. Even fitness work was done with a football

- La Masia graduate turned journalist Oriol Domenech

He was full of self-assurance that the team he had built would triumph, because he’d brought it together. He believed he was always right

- Barça defender Miguel Angel Nadal

Milan are nothing out of this world. They base their game on defence, we base ours on attack

- Cruyff ahead of the final Milan won 4-0

Things got violent – we both lost ourselves. We couldn’t carry on after 
that, not even for two games

- Vice-president Joan Gaspart
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