Perfection? Messi

FC Barcelona mourns the death of club legend, Johan Cruyff.

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“Playing football is very simple. But playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.” – Johan Cruyff

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Thank you for everything!

Johan Cruyff, 1978.

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Barcelona flag flown at half-staff in memory of the passing of Cruyff, the father of our football. x

Flowers being laid at Johan Cruyff’s statue at the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam.

“He was only seventeen when he first played at Ajax, yet even then he delivered running commentaries on the use of space to the rest of the team, telling them where to run, where not to run. Players did what the tiny, skinny teenager told them to do because he was right. Cruyff didn’t talk about abstract space but about specific, detailed spatial relations on the field. Indeed, the most abiding image of him as a player is not of him scoring or running or tackling. It is of Cruyff pointing. ‘No, not there, back a little… forward two metres… four metres more to the left.’ He seemed like a conductor directing a symphony orchestra. It was as if Cruyff was helping his colleagues to realize an approximate rendering on the field to match the sublime vision in his mind of how the space ought to be ordered.”

1947- 2016. Rest in peace father of our philosophy, Johan Cruyff.

2012-13/2014-15 Messi celebrates with son at Camp Nou