My Turn - A Life of Total Football

Johan Cruyff

Nation Books

2016

302 páginas

10h 4m

ISBN-10: 1568585713

Johan Cruyff embodied a footballing philosophy that now dominates coaching and playing styles in all the leading club sides around the world. You can dispute whether Cruyff was the greatest player ever--he was certainly one of the top three--but he is undoubtedly the player who single-handedly changed the nature of the game.

My Turn tells the story of Cruyff's remarkable career, built on the techniques he learned playing in the streets of postwar Amsterdam while hoping to be noticed by the city's famous club, Ajax. He would eventually inspire that team to eight league championships and three European cups. He won his first of three Ballons d'Or at twenty-four in 1971. In 1973, Cruyff was sold to Barcelona for a world-record transfer fee. He led the Catalans to victory in La Liga for the first time since 1960, and went on to leave a lasting mark on Spanish soccer. In the 1974 World Cup, Cruyff propelled the Dutch team to the final for the first time.

Cruyff's lasting influence, however, is not in the medals he won, but in the style of play he epitomized and then applied to the Barcelona and Ajax teams he coached. His vision of "Total Football" transformed the way soccer was played, and its dazzling fluidity became the basis of the most admired sides around the world. He was the sport's uncompromising genius on and off the field of play.

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Muito bom quando fica no jogador/técnico, muito chato no dirigente/"eu sei de tudo"

Um cara que marcou o futebol como jogador, técnico e pensador e é muito interessante ver como as coisas mudaram (algumas com sua participação/influência) do começo da sua carreira para os dias de hoje. O livro tem ótimas observações sobre o futebol (individual e tático, na visão do Cruyff) e o gerenciamento de um clube.

O problema é que o fica bem tedioso do meio para fim, quando o Cruyff acaba a carreira como técnico e basicamente vira um dirigente / crítico de tudo relacionado ao Ajax e seleção holandesa.