05/06/2024
Football according to Johan Cruyff in 14 quotes
1. “Quality without results is useless. The result without quality is boring. ”
2. "Playing football is easy, but just playing football is the hardest thing."
3. "Footballers who play in the streets are more important than qualified coaches."
4. "In my teams, the goalkeeper is the first attacker and the striker is the first defender."
5. “Technique is not being able to juggle 1,000. Anyone can do it with practice. You can use it to work in a circus. Technique is passing the ball in one touch, at the right speed and on the right foot of your teammate. ”
6. “Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the least mistakes wins. "
7. "If you pick the best in each position, you won't have a good team but eleven number ones."
8. "It's better to lose with your own ideas than with someone else's."
9. "If we have the ball, the others can't score."
10. “What is speed? Athletes often confuse speed of action with speed of analysis. If I start my race before my opponent, it's because I understood what was going on before him. "
11. "What is difficult in an easy match is to succeed in making the opponent play badly."
12. “When you play a game, it's statistically proven that players only get the ball three minutes on average. The most important thing, then, is what you do during those 87 minutes when you don't have the ball. That's what makes you a good player or not. ”
13. "When I see everyone signing each other on their way back to the field, I tell myself that if it worked, there would only be draws."
14. “Why can't we beat a more rich club? I've never seen a bag full of tickets score a goal. "
Today would’ve been Dutch and Barca’s icon 77th birthday today..