Uno de los partidos más importantes en todo el mundo, sin duda, es el Barcelona vs Real
Madrid, un cotejo que se vislumbra como vibrante y espectacular, con ingredientes futbolisticos
de máxima calidad.
Es un duelo que mantiene vivo a toda España y expectante a todo el planeta, el resultado se
refleja en la red social twitter, donde nuevamente se hicieron apuestas en torno al Clásico
Español, siendo la de ponerse la playera del rival, en caso de la derrota del equipo
predilecto.
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What a trio!!!!!!
Di Stéfano, Messi and Maradona.
Lionel Messi won the "Di Stéfano trophy" given to the Best Player in Spain.
Messi won the award for his fantastic performance in La Liga last season.
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El azulgrana recibió el Trofeo Di Stéfano, que le distingue como el mejor jugador de nuestro
fútbol
Maradona y Di Stéfano coronan a Messi
De manos de dos leyendas del fútbol como son Maradona y Di Stéfano, Messi recibió el preciado
galardón, que pesaba como una deuda en palabras de Di Stéfano, y sucedió asà a Raúl, ganador
de la primera edición.
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As a fan of Barcelona I was thinking the other day about the club's rich history as well as
their successes in the UEFA Champions League. Barcelona have won the UEFA Champions League three
times in their history with two coming in the last four years which is extremely impressive.
It got me thinking; which Champions League winning side was better?
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Barcelista 10 November @ 09:10 AM EST
- FC Barcelona legend Johan Cruyff has been officially presented as the new manager of the Catalan
national team. He's been given the full option to call up players from Barca, and for a man who's
project is coaching a team that plays two matches year, he's pretty psyched about it:
"Our
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The Offside 06 November @ 08:00 PM EST
Seven stories from The Offside and World Cup Blog this week: Nominate your player/manager football
ubermen Gigi's Buffon's incredible Champions League save Ballon d'Or or FIFA World Player of the
Year: Which is shinier? Norwegian homage to Brazilian airport ad The return of Johan Cruyff. To
Catalonia.
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Johan Derksen column: Marco van Basten is back in football. This time as tv analist. There's a
remarkable small amount of ex-players who have the guts and vision to come forward with there
opinions. Jan Mulder and Rene van der Gijp are comics. Characters. Johan Cruyff is an enigma,
formulating in
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Johan Cruyff wasn't the first to leave Holland (Faas Wilkes played in Italy, Kees Rijvers in France
among other players) but JC's departure to greener pastures felt as a statement: you need to engage
in a bigger competition once you're the star in your domestic competition. It gave you some
certainty
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I have said it before and I will say it again. Lionel Messi is flat out the best player in all
of the world. End of the discussion.Â
Messi brought home the first ever treble for Spain's La Liga and the forward won the Champions
League Player & Forward of the Year awards and also the LLTO Player of the Year to name a few of
the most coveted trophies in his case at home.
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The countdown to South Africa 2010 has well and truly started and so we thought we'd take a look
back at some of our greatest ever World Cup moments. We'd also like to know what has been your
greatest World Cup moment? Maybe it was a win for your country; a superb goal or a moment of
madness?
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Oct7 This is a featured article. Please scroll down, for all the latest on FC Barcelona. Johan
Cruyff writes a weekly...
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In the next weeks, Johan Cruyff will decide whether he'll make a return as team manager!! The ex
Ajax and Barca coach has been invited by the Catalan federation to coach the national selection.
Catalonia has a "symbolic" national team, which is excluded from official tournaments. The team
plays one game
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Arsenal's free-spirited style has seen them score 27 goals in 9 matches so far how long will it
be before they set their sights on the magic century?
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In 2005, Johan Cruyff took a private jet along with golfer Ian Poulter to Amsterdam to watch
Arsenal's 2-1 Champions League win against Ajax.
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Arsenal won the battle of the 4-3-3 as Wigan Athletic afforded the Gunners too much space in the
centre of midfield to play their game.
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Roberto MartÃnez would been have growing up in Catalonia around the same time Johan Cruyff was
instilling his model of play at Barcelona and what was to become the very DNA of the football
club.
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Jesus Almeyda 07 September @ 06:16 AM EST
"Italian's can't defeat you but you can lose to them!" (Johan Cruyff)
Bir önceki postta o kadar behsetmişken Cruyff'tan onun bu şahane sözünü de anmamak olmaz. Ah
be Kaladze abinin sözünü dinleseydin ya biraz ders alsaydın ya. İtalyanlar yine kazandı, yine
siz kaybettiniz!
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Dutch football brought forward many great talents. The best of them all - and debatable: the world
- was Johan Cruyff. The Einstein of the pitch. Willem van Hanegem was arguable the second best
player ever to wear the Orange jersey, but the list of great names is endless: Piet
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Hace ya un tiempo que querÃa escribiros esta entrada para darle otro prisma al tan manido tema de
las canteras que en estas semanas esta enfrentando, una vez más, al Real Madrid y al Barça
(espero no aburriros con la dualidad de siempre, pero os prometo que es interesante) porque creo
que no se están diciendo todas las verdades.
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One of the lessons learned in this "Summer of Soccer" is that there is a sizable group of
Americans who enjoy high level soccer and are willing to pay top dollar for the opportunity to see
clubs like Real Madrid, Chelsea, Inter Milan, and Barcelona play live, even if the matches are only
friendlies or exhibitions.
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El 15 de Junio de 1974, en mi opinión y en la de muchos, cambió el futbol al presentarse la
Selección de Holanda en la Copa del Mundo de Alemania 74.
Rinus Michel presentó un esquema innovador y revolucionario que entre otros
arrolló, hasta ese momento a los 3 grandes de Sudamérica, Uruguay,
Argentina y Brasil, quienes no quedaron con ninguna duda de su
inferioridad.
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Bobby Robson's passing was an event charitably marked by the soccer world. He left the world at 76
as one of the major coaches in the world with a CV as impressive as any.
While his two heroic World Cup exits dominated most of the obituaries, his achievements in coaching
winning teams in four countries are to my mind his greatest.
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It is testament to his achievements in his career that sadness at the death of Bobby Robson will
reach far beyond the boundaries of his beloved North-East or even the shores of Great Britain.
Robson's skills as a player and manager as well as his gentle and welcoming manner, meant he was
respected and much loved across the footballing world.
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Ronald Koeman debuts as AZ coach with a cup! AZ won the 14th edition of the Johan Cruyff Trophee in
the Amsterdam Arena, against cup winner Heerenveen. This is the first time AZ won the JC cup.
Koeman's team led 3-0 after 30 minutes of play, goals by Aussie Brett Holman,
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Arsenal fans want a similar implementation of Barcelona's formation but it is not as simple as
4-3-3.
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"Pressure, pressure, pressure!" Pep Guradiola insists were it not for the suffocating pressuring
of opponents caused by his team, his side would not have been as successful.
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Johan Cruyff was silent this year. The last time he was actually big news was when Marco van Basten
told him he didn't want to follow JC's guidelines at Ajax. As a result, JC said: Fine. And walked
away. He was also conspiciously absent from Champions League analysis on Dutch
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EPL Talk 26 June @ 02:38 PM EST
Yesterday, I looked at the expectations we often place on international football. This got
me thinking about the Dutch and their legendary Total Football era in the 70s. What does this mean
to us today? Does Cruyff's legacy still influence world football?
What do we want from our football?
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Aron Winter (42 years old) can look back at a tremendous career. He made his debut under Johan
Cruyff in Ajax at a young age and was repeatedly named the best young talent by JC. His biggest
strength - his versatility - would also become his biggest weakness. Winter would
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Professors, Pragmatists, Philosophers, and Football
(http://www.theknightlynews.com/blog/2009/5/31/professors-pragmatists-philosophers-and-football.html)
Johan Cruyff, as a player for Barcelona
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Back from a lengthy hiatus following Stoke City's unlikely season of Premiership survival, one of
our earliest correspondents Gavin Finney returns with some thoughts on the Barcelona footballing
model and wonders why English clubs can't adopt something similar. A direct line can be traced back
to the late 1970s with Johan Cruyff as a player to Johan Cruyff as a manager to one of his dream
team players Pep Guardiola guiding the current triple winners, many of whom likely remain in the
club to teach the next generation of Barcelona prodigies.
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"Receive, pass, offer, receive, pass, offer." Imagine you're 11 years old and good enough to be
invited to train at the Barcelona academy. These are the words that you will hear time and time
again. When reduced to three simple imperatives, football is incredibly straight-forward. These
mantras do not just appear overnight though, they are distilled and subsequently absorbed by
generations of talent both on and off the field.
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I'm not going to go into agonizing detail of wax eloquent about Barça's almost routine handling of
the massively dangerous Manchester United attack (after about the first 10 minutes or so). Nor am I
going to start advocating that DC United's...
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The Spanish press were unreserved in their praise of Barcelona following Wednesday's Champions
League success, universally hailing Pep Guardiola's side as the best team on the planet.
Barca became the first Spanish club to win the treble of league, cup and European Cup after
goals in either half from Samuel Eto'o and Lionel Messi earned them a deserved 2-0 win over holders
Manchester United in Rome.
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Pep Guardiola has restored the philosophy of Johan Cruyff's 'Dream Team' of the 1990s to the
current Barcelona side.
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Pep Guardiola insists for it not for Johan Cruyff, as a player he would never had left the third
division.
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Futblog 27 May @ 04:43 AM EST
Ajax tegen Haarlem 4-1 met Johan Cruyff
Originally uploaded by Maurisico Cuatro equipos han logrado antes el famoso Triplete que es ganar
‘Champions', Liga y Copa en un mismo año. Celtic de Glasgow, Ajax, PSV y Manchester United.
El Barcelona lo desea e intentara lograr en tan solo unos instantes, por eso quiero recordar al
equipo Holandés del Ajax donde militaba el creativo Johan Cruyff uno de los 3 mejores jugadores en
la historia del futbol mundial.
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