Taking into account playing and coaching careers combined, there’s probably never been a more influential figure in the history of the game than Johan Cruyff – along with Rinus Michels, one of the fathers of Total Football.
A three-time back-to-back European Cup winner and nine-time Eredivisie champion during his legendary first spell as an Ajax player, the iconic Netherlands captain later managed the Amsterdam giants to 1986/87 Cup Winners’ Cup victory – before steering Barcelona, where he won the LaLiga title as a player, to the same honour two seasons later and, in 1991/92, their first European Cup.
