Johan Cruyff Best Netherland Football of The Year ~ Top Greatest Player Football

Hendrik Johannes Cruijff (Johan Cruijff (help·info) - spelled Cruyff outside the Netherlands; see IJ (digraph) - born April 25, 1947 in Amsterdam) is a former Dutch football player and manager/coach. He was named European Footballer of the Year three times (1971, 1973, 1974) which is a record jointly held with Michel Platini and Marco van Basten. Cruyff was the most famous exponent of the football philosophy known as Total Football, explored by Rinus Michels. Allthough thus he was a member of the national Dutch team some times, he never gained a main trophee anyhow.
After his retirement from playing in 1984, Cruyff became highly successful as manager of Ajax and later FC Barcelona; he remains an influential advisor to both clubs.
In 1999, Cruyff was voted European Player of the Century in an election held by the IFFHS, and came second, behind Pelé in their World Player of the Century poll. He came third in a vote organised by the French weekly magazine France Football consulting their former Ballon d'Or winners to elect their Football Player of the Century(Wikipedia)

Johan Cruyff Best Netherland Football of The Year

Johan Cruyff, or Cruijff as the name is actualy spelt, was the star of the exciting 1974 Dutch "Total Football" World Cup team and the Ajax Amsterdam team that won a hat-trick of European Cups in the early Seventies. Three times European footballer of the year, Cruyff was the most gifted European player of his generation, and probably of all time.(football-history.net)