Barcelona manager Johan Cruyff decided to play Lineker on the right of the midfield and he eventually lost his place in the first team.

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Manager Johan Cruyff gave him his professional debut on 14 December 1986 against Roda JC ; the game ended in a 2 – 0 victory for Ajax.

Johan Cruyff with Feyenoord in 1984

Key players in the squad from this period included Johan Cruyff, Ruud Gullit and Peter Houtman ( who later became the Feyenoord stadium announcer ).

He was again voted the European player of the year, becoming the third player after Johan Cruyff and Michel Platini to win the award three times.

He entered the match as part of a double substitution that also introduced Johan Cruyff.

Dutch forward Johan Cruyff was the system's most famous exponent.

Johan Cruyff always talked about where people should run and where they should stand, and when they should not move.

What later would become known as tiki-taka developed and evolved from the football style propagated by Johan Cruyff during his tenure as manager of Barcelona from 1988 to 1995, This developed and upgraded system has more recently been employed by the Euro 2008, 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012-winning Spanish teams of Luis Aragonés and Vicente del Bosque, as well as by FC Barcelona under then manager Pep Guardiola.

The 1970s marked a turning point for Barcelona with the signing of a new player, Johan Cruyff, in 1973.

George Best, Johan Cruyff, and many other notable players graced the soccer field during this period in Los Angeles soccer history, for clubs such as the Los Angeles Aztecs, California Surf and the Los Angeles Salsa.

In June 2011, Davids was elected to the new supervisory board at Ajax alongside Johan Cruyff.

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

Liverpool's performance in the 1966-67 European Cup was poor and, after struggling to overcome FC Petrolul Ploiesti in the first round, they were well beaten in the last 16 by Ajax who, inspired by 19-year old Johan Cruyff, were a great team in the making.

Witkamp was looking for something new to definitely decide which was the best team in Europe and also to further test Ajax's legendary team, led by their star player Johan Cruyff.

Three players have won the award three times each: Johan Cruyff, Michel Platini and Marco van Basten.

In 1989, he joined FC Barcelona of Spain on the premise that Netherlands legend Johan Cruyff, Laudrup's childhood role model, had been assembling a team that was striving for success.

In 1994, he completed a controversial move from Barça to Real Madrid after he fell out with Johan Cruyff.

The Netherlands, who were runners-up in the 1974 and 1978 World Cups, and their star player, Johan Cruyff, were at their peak at the time.

It was made famous by Johan Cruyff in a match for AFC Ajax in 1982 against Helmond Sport.

The other two are Marco van Basten and Johan Cruyff.

In October 1983, he dazzled the White Hart Lane crowd with a phenomenal second-round display as Spurs won 6 – 2 on aggregate against a Feyenoord Rotterdam side containing the legendary Johan Cruyff.

# REDIRECT Johan Cruyff

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.

After Johan returned to Finland, Erik XIV forbade him to deal with any foreign countries without his consent.

Arch Enemy returned in 1999 with Burning Bridges and Burning Japan Live 1999 which would prove to be Johan Liiva's last recording with the band.

When Johan Björnsson Printz took over as governor of New Sweden, Ridder returned to Sweden to serve in the Swedish Navy.

In September 1941 he returned to London, where he cooperated closely with prime minister in exile, Johan Nygaardsvold, foreign minister Trygve Lie and other government members.

Jansen signed for the American side Washington Diplomats in 1980, but after playing 27 games for them, he returned to the Netherlands to sign for Ajax, on the advice of Johan Cruijff, who played together with Jansen at the Washington Diplomats.

He then returned to Copenhagen accompanied by Bertel Thorvaldsen in 1819, and married Augusta Lorentzen, daughter of the organist, Johan Henrich Lorentzen, and his wife, Frederikke Vilhelmine Lintrup, on 24 December 1820.

He was on detachment with Prince Rupert's Green squadron, when on 11 June 1666 the great Four Days ' Battle began, but returned to the main fleet in time to take part on the final day, and in this action when his flotilla was surrounded by that of Vice-Admiral Johan de Liefde he received a wound — being hit first through the cheek and then in the left shoulder by musket balls fired by a sharpshooter when his Victory was challenged by De Liefde's flagship, the Ridderschap van Holland — of which he died shortly after returning to London.

After a lengthy spell on the sidelines due to injury, Taylor returned to first-team action on 26 February 2011 in a game against Bolton Wanderers, being sent off after a challenge on Johan Elmander in the 54th minute.

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

Of the other clubs, only Valencia in 1971 and the Johan Cruyff-inspired Barcelona of 1974 managed to break the dominance of Real Madrid.

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.

While Buckingham was one of the first English managers to coach top European sides like Ajax Amsterdam and FC Barcelona, and has Johan Cruyff as one of his biggest fans, he remained largely unremembered in his native England.

Johan Cruyff scored once in the 1975 tournament for Barcelona.

During the 1980s and 1990s FC Barcelona cherry picked the best Basque players, among them José Mari Bakero, Txiki Begiristain, Andoni Zubizarreta, Julio Salinas and Ion Andoni Goikoetxea, allowing Johan Cruyff to build the legendary Dream Team around them.

Together with Lex van Dam he translated a book about Johan Cruyff, The Netherlands best-ever footballer titled Ajax, Barcelona, Cruyff, The ABC of a destinate Maestro by Frits Barend and Henk van Dorp.

When Johan Cruyff joined FC Barcelona in 1973, Real Madrid needed to respond in kind.

Johan Neeskens, who became assistant to Barcelona manager Frank Rijkaard for the 2006 – 07 season, said that Neill " could play for any of the best clubs ".

Seemingly invigorated by the new training style, Johan quickly progressed enough to win fourth place at the 50 meter freestyle event in the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain.

A youth product of Catalonia giants FC Barcelona, Sergi had not yet appeared in La Liga when he was summoned by first-team manager Johan Cruyff to a UEFA Champions League group stage game away against Galatasaray S. K.

On 2 November 2009, it was announced that Dutch legend and former Barcelona manager Johan Cruyff will be the new coach of Catalonia.