Johan Cruyff
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1. Johan Cruyff
Johan Cruyff is the best Dutch participant of all time – and he’ll in all probability stay so without end, as a result of he was a lot greater than only a footballer.
Not often has somebody had such a transformative impression on the sport as the person who, together with legendary Ajax and Netherlands manger Rinus Michels, refined the Complete Soccer philosophy.
The figurehead of Ajax’s triple European Cup-winning group and the Netherlands’ 1974 World Cup runners-up (it was at that match, carrying the armband, that he launched the world to the Cruyff flip), Cruyff additionally gained main honours with Barcelona and Feyenoord (becoming a member of the latter just about purely to spite Ajax – even his rustling was elite degree).