Ajax won the championship in 1966 and 1967, scoring a record breaking 122 goals including 33 from Johan Cruijff, and again in 1968, and reached the European Cup final of 1969 against AC Milan.

The departure of Johan Cruijff for FC Barcelona in 1973 signalled the end of this period of success.

Johan Cruijff returned to the club in 1981, with the club producing some talented youngsters in the mid-1980s such as Marco van Basten and Frank Rijkaard.

The club is also particularly famous for its renowned youth program that has produced many Dutch talents over the years – Johan Cruijff, Edwin van der Sar, Dennis Bergkamp, national team top scorer Patrick Kluivert, and former national team coach Marco van Basten.

* Johan Cruijff ( 1985 – 88 )

* Johan Cruijff Shield: 7

* Johan Cruijff Shield

* 1947 – Johan Cruijff, Dutch footballer

The first half was played by members of Arsenal and Ajax's current squads, while the second was played by famous ex-players from both sides, including Ian Wright, Patrick Vieira, Marc Overmars, Emmanuel Petit and David Seaman for Arsenal, and Marco van Basten, Danny Blind, Johan Cruijff, Frank and Ronald de Boer for Ajax.

At Feyenoord Gullit found himself playing alongside Dutch legend Johan Cruijff, while the assistant manager was Wim van Hanegem, and they were to leave a lasting impression.

The club has won the national league 21 times, the national cup nine times and the Johan Cruijff Schaal nine times.

On 23 August 2008, PSV won the Johan Cruijff schaal ( Dutch Super Cup ) 2 – 0, the goals scored by Danko Lazović and Dirk Marcellis against Feyenoord, PSV being the winner of the Eredivisie and Feyenoord won the KNVB Cup.

* Johan Cruijff Schaal: 9

Actors Lorne Greene and Lee Majors, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev, composer John Williams, author Graham Greene, and former Mauritian QC and Politician Sir Gaetan Duval ( 1930 – 1996 ), football player Johan Cruijff, drummer Charlie Watts, Cheech Marin, Thomas Chong, television host and comedian Jay Leno, Mike Hailwood and composer John Barry musician Carlos Santana, all owned SMs.

* Johan Cruijff Shield: 1999

* Johan Cruijff Schaal ( 4 ): 1993, 1994, 1995, 2007

Holland's Johan Cruijff was often part of an effective strike combination

Another example was the Total Football played by the Dutch team in the 1970s, where the ability of their players, and in particular Johan Cruijff, to swap positions allowed a flexible attacking approach which opposition teams found difficult to effectively mark.

Marseille played in the European Cup in 1971 – 72 and 1972 – 73 but were defeated by AFC Ajax of Johan Cruijff and Juventus.

During the 1971 – 72 season, Neeskens took up more of a central midfield role, in support of Johan Cruijff.

Rensenbrink made his international debut for the Netherlands national football team against Scotland in 1968, but picked up relatively few caps due to competition for the forward positions with Johan Cruijff and Piet Keizer.

In September 1987, what would have been Rijkaard's third season ( 1987 – 88 ) under Dutch football legend Johan Cruijff as head coach, Rijkaard stormed off the training field and vowed never to play under him again.

He became the first Barcelona coach to have won twice at Real Madrid's stadium Santiago Bernabéu, an achievement which even successful managers like Johan Cruijff, Louis van Gaal and Luis Aragonés were unable to accomplish.

The win made him the fifth individual to have won the European Cup both as a player and as a manager, alongside Miguel Muñoz, Giovanni Trapattoni, Johan Cruijff, and Carlo Ancelotti, a feat later achieved also by his eventual successor, Josep Guardiola.

During the concert which saw the premiere of his first symphony on 14 March 1894 conducted by Johan Svendsen, Nielsen played in the second violin section.

In the early 1980s, Dutch superstar Johan Cruyff played half a season for the club, retiring three years later.

In July 1983 Lendl played three exhibition matches ( against Johan Kriek, Kevin Curren, Jimmy Connors ) in Sun City, South Africa, in the apartheid-era bantustan of Bophuthatswana.

Johan van Oldenbarnevelt ( ), Lord of Berkel en Rodenrijs ( 1600 ), Gunterstein ( 1611 ) and Bakkum ( 1613 ) ( September 14, 1547 – May 13, 1619 ) was a Dutch statesman who played an important role in the Dutch struggle for independence from Spain.

His preferred position was up front on the left, but that position was already Johan Cruijff's domain, he played on the left-wing position in midfield, taking over from Ajax player Piet Keizer.

On July 27, the day after the Mets played a 14-inning game where every pitcher in the bullpen was used, Johan pitched a complete game against the St. Louis Cardinals.

Johan attended Liceo Jose Nucete Sardi High School, where he played center field.

Johan Vonlanthen Benavídez ( born 1 February 1986 in Santa Marta, Colombia ) is a retired Swiss footballer who played as a winger.

The story explores the disintegration of a marriage between Marianne, a lawyer, and Johan, a professor ( played respectively by Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson ) over a long period, using a restricted cast, a naturalist, hyper-realistic cinematic style, claustrophobic close-ups, and strings of rapid, articulate monologues.

J-Stars was a Dutch ska music band, formed by Johan Steevens, and played from 2004 to 2008.

Johan Slager played guitar on every album until the split in 1982.

A product of the Ajax Academy, he previously played for AFC Ajax with whom he won six trophies and during which time he was awarded the Johan Cruijff Award ( for best young player in the Netherlands ) in 2004.

He also had the club's stadium renovated and decided to name the stadium's main stand the Johan Cruyff Stand, because Johan Cruyff had played his last official match against PEC Zwolle ' 82 on May 13, 1984.

The first years of the ' new ' club were hard, but after 1992 / 1993, a new team filled with talents such as Jaap Stam ( who would later play for PSV, Manchester United, Lazio Roma, A. C. Milan and Ajax ), Bert Konterman ( Feyenoord and Rangers ), Johan Hansma ( SC Heerenveen ) and Henri van der Vegt ( Udinese ) played attractive and successful football.

Johan Liljemark played the didgeridoo, which he had learned in Australia while living among the Aboriginals.

He got a second chance when Norway got Nils Johan Semb as coach in 1998 and Berg played on the national team again 10 years after his debut.

Her second husband Johan Jørgen Holst, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, played a central role in Middle East peace efforts.

Musgrove had made expensive forays into the transfer market bringing in four new players in the shape of Karl-Heinz Granitza ( from Hertha Berlin ), Arno Steffenhagen ( from FC St. Pauli ), Horst Blankenburg ( who had played in the great Ajax side of the early 70 ’ s alongside Johan Cruyff, and company ) and Jorgen Kristensen ( another former Hertha Berlin man ).

In a match against France, he played against fellow future NBA player Johan Petro, and Biedriņš scored 21 points and 16 rebounds.