Football- legend Johan Cruyff is dead. The Dutchman died on Thursday at the age of 68 years after a lung disease in Barcelona. The disease had been found in vice world champion of 1974 last year in autumn.
The football world mourns Johan Cruyff. The vice world champion of 1974 died on Thursday in Barcelona at the age of 68 years from the effects of lung cancer.
Cruyff had made last fall his illness public and started a little later with chemotherapy. Until the early 90s, Cruyff had been a heavy smoker.
Cruyff was confident of victory against cancer
“I have the feeling, with 2: 0 to lie in the first half of a game front, the end is not yet, “he wrote in mid-February to his illness. “But I’m sure I’m going to win it.”
Cruyff, who was also an ambassador for the Laureus very active, was defeated in 1974 with Oranje in final in Munich Germany 1: 2
Cruyff:. Three times European footballer of the year
the playmaker won as a professional among others three times the European champions Cup (with Ajax) and was
1971, 1973 and 1974, awarded the European footballer of the year. as a coach, Cruyff, European footballer of the century, three European Cups and four Spanish championships took with FC Barcelona.
Ex-Fifa boss Joseph Blatter called Cruyff against AFP a “unique” character of football.
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