Dutch Football Legend Johan Cruyff Passed away

The Netherland's soccer legend Johan Cruyff died of  lung cancer on 24 March 2016 in Barcelona, Spain. He was 68.
•    Cruyff’s talent was such that he is comfortably placed alongside Pele, Diego Maradona, Franz Beckenbauer and Lionel Messi as the best footballers of all time.
•    He was considered as one of the best player, coach, thinker, speaker and mentor in the football world.
•    Apart from the national team of The Netherlands, he represented Ajax Amsterdam, Barcelona, Los Angeles Aztecs among others.
•    He was also the manager of the football clubs – Barcelona, Ajax and Catalonia.
•    During the career spanning over 19 years, he scored 33 goals in the 48 matches he played for The Netherlands national team. Overall, he scored 392 times in 520 games.
•    As a coach he had 242 victories in 387 matches, with 75 draws and 70 losses.
•    He reached his sporting peak in the early 1970s and went on to successfully manage Barcelona.
•    With Cruyff on the field, Ajax won the European Cup for three consecutive years from 1971-1973 before he moved to FC Barcelona midseason in 1973 and led the middle-of-the-table team to its first national title in a decade.
•    He played a key role as the coach of The Netherlands in 1974 FIFA World Cup in which the team was runner up.
•    He was European player of the year three times and, in 1999, was named Europe's Best Player of The 20th Century.
•    In the football world, he is famous for inventing 'Total Football' tactics in which players constantly interchange roles.
•    The tactics influenced the game worldwide, bringing fresh life to a sport that had become stuck in a defensive mindset.
•    He is also associated with the ‘Cruyff turn’ -- a technique he used for passing defenders by faking toward them, then flicking the ball behind his own other leg in the opposite direction and darting after it.