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    'Everything For Me Started in The Street' - Johan Cruyff

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    Johan Cruyff learned the fundamentals of football at a young age by playing constantly in the streets near his home, where he had to adapt to unpredictable ball movements and learn balance to avoid injury. He was further developed as a "total footballer" through training under coach Jany van der Veen that focused on repeated practice of specific skills like shooting, passing, and controlling the ball. Cruyff also credits his experience playing baseball for enhancing his spatial awareness and ability to think ahead on the football pitch.

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    Johan Cruyff learned the fundamentals of football at a young age by playing constantly in the streets near his home, where he had to adapt to unpredictable ball movements and learn balance to avoid injury. He was further developed as a "total footballer" through training under coach Jany van der Veen that focused on repeated practice of specific skills like shooting, passing, and controlling the ball. Cruyff also credits his experience playing baseball for enhancing his spatial awareness and ability to think ahead on the football pitch.

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    Johan Cruyff learned the fundamentals of football at a young age by playing constantly in the streets near his home, where he had to adapt to unpredictable ball movements and learn balance to avoid injury. He was further developed as a "total footballer" through training under coach Jany van der Veen that focused on repeated practice of specific skills like shooting, passing, and controlling the ball. Cruyff also credits his experience playing baseball for enhancing his spatial awareness and ability to think ahead on the football pitch.

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    Johan Cruyff learned the fundamentals of football at a young age by playing constantly in the streets near his home, where he had to adapt to unpredictable ball movements and learn balance to avoid injury. He was further developed as a "total footballer" through training under coach Jany van der Veen that focused on repeated practice of specific skills like shooting, passing, and controlling the ball. Cruyff also credits his experience playing baseball for enhancing his spatial awareness and ability to think ahead on the football pitch.

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    JOHAN CRUYFF: MY TURN!

    1. ‘Everything for me started in the street’!

    - As early I can remember we played football everywhere we could. It was


    here I learned to think about how to turn a disadvantage into an advantage.
    You see that the kerb isn’t actually an obstacle, but that you can turn it into
    a teammate for a one-two. So thanks to the kerb I was able to work on my
    technique.

    - When the ball bounces off different surfaces at odd angles, you have to
    adjust in an instant. Throughout my career people would often be surprised
    that I shot or passed from an angle they weren’t expecting, but that’s
    because of how I grew up. The same thing is true of balancing. When you
    fall on the concrete, it hurts, and, of course, you don’t want to get hurt. So
    when playing football, you’re also busy trying not to fall. It was learning to
    play like this, when you had to react to the situation all the time, that taught
    me my skills as a footballer. That’s why I’m a great advocate of making
    young people play football without studs. They miss the hours I had in the
    street, the hours practising how not to fall. Give them flat soles and help
    them keep their balance better.

    - What has been important to me is not only playing football, but enjoying it.
    - When I was with the Ajax youth team at the age of 12, Jany Van der Veen
    trained me not only in football, but also in norms and values.

    - It was Jany who taught us to play games in which we would work on


    mistakes so that we could be creative in the way we practised.

    - Jany worked with Jack Reynolds - the visionary Englishman who had been
    the first team coach in the 1940s and helped lay the footballing foundations
    that Total Football would later be built on - and applied the ideas he had
    worked on with Jack Reynolds to us.
    - It was from Jany that we got the fun.

    - Jany Van der Veen always insisted on very specific training, in which five
    fundamentals played a central part. Playing games always alternated with
    maintaining and developing these five basic fundamentals of football:
    shooting, heading, dribbling, passing and controlling the ball. So we were
    always really busy with the ball. This way of training has always remained
    the standard for me. It’s led me to realize that the easiest way is often the
    hardest. So I see touching the ball once as the highest form of technique.
    But to be able to touch the ball perfectly once, you need to have touched it
    a hundred thousand times in training, and that’s what we spent our time
    doing.

    Johan Cruy & Jany van der Veen ‘Training Session’


    1. Football Game
    2. Shooting Game

    3. Football Game
    4. Heading Game
    5. Football Game
    6. Dribbling Game
    7. Football Game
    8. Passing Game
    9. Football Game
    10. Controlling the Ball Game

    - Baseball allowed me to focus on a lot of details that would later be very


    useful to me in football. I learned that you had to know where you were
    going to throw the ball before you received it, which meant that you had to
    have an idea of all the space around you and where each player was
    before you made your throw. No football coach ever told me that I had to
    know where I was going to pass the ball before I had received it - to focus
    on having a total overview. ‘As a catcher you determine the pitcher’s throw
    because he doesn’t have an overview of the whole field and you do.’

    - Baseball is typically one of those sports that can bring on a talent during
    training, because there are lots of parallels with football. Like starting
    speed, sliding, spatial insight, learning to think a move ahead and much
    more besides.
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    - ‘Think ahead’ - you’re always busy making decisions between space and
    risk in fractions of a second.

    - ‘Total Footballer’ - It also helped that for a long time I played for two
    different teams. Even after I’d made my first-team debut as an outfield
    player with Ajax when I was seventeen, on 15 November 1964, I continued
    to play in goal for the third team. I enjoyed that enormously. I was also
    really good at it and one year I was even reserve goalie when Ajax played
    in the European Cup, because in those days only one substitute was
    allowed on the bench.
    - I was a kid having fun, and for the first fifteen years of my life there was no
    philosophy and no analysis. It was just fun. I had no feeling of failure. I just
    took everything as it came and loved it.

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