saddened me to hear he'd passed away, the best ever for my money..played in 4 positions for holland not out of necessity...it would be hard to name another that could pull that at intl level.
Kevin Keegan once told an intresting little anecdote about him playing v cruyff (mid '30's) in pat rice's testimonial, said Cruyff had chased him and nicked the ball from behind by means of a sliding-tackle-nutmeg and at that point in his (KK's) career with half a century of england caps and being european footballer of the year he was'nt having it...he set off after him to straighten the situation and said he was gobsmacked to discover Cruyff could straight-line him with the ball under control with his head up barking orders...said he'd never seen that before (run navigating a ball faster than he could without one) and had seen many international footballers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... tuary.html
Simply saying ^ he refused to play in the '78 finals is a bit swerved, he had a gun held to his/family's head in his own home and was told Argentina would be winning the world cup.
After ajax told him he was too olde at 36yrs he went to Feynoord....and did a league and Dutch cup double...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3-_Z4Rolx4
Kevin Keegan once told an intresting little anecdote about him playing v cruyff (mid '30's) in pat rice's testimonial, said Cruyff had chased him and nicked the ball from behind by means of a sliding-tackle-nutmeg and at that point in his (KK's) career with half a century of england caps and being european footballer of the year he was'nt having it...he set off after him to straighten the situation and said he was gobsmacked to discover Cruyff could straight-line him with the ball under control with his head up barking orders...said he'd never seen that before (run navigating a ball faster than he could without one) and had seen many international footballers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... tuary.html
Simply saying ^ he refused to play in the '78 finals is a bit swerved, he had a gun held to his/family's head in his own home and was told Argentina would be winning the world cup.
After ajax told him he was too olde at 36yrs he went to Feynoord....and did a league and Dutch cup double...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3-_Z4Rolx4
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