Hendrik Johannes Cruijff (is a trainer and a former football player of the national team of the Netherlands, Ajax and Barcelona. During his career he played 752 matches, 425 goals. Three times winner of the Golden ball, three times won the European Cup as a player and once as a coach. Widely recognized as one of the best players of the XX century. Currently, the sports Director of the club «Guadalajara».
March 26, 2010 Cruyff was proclaimed honorary President of FC «Barcelona» for his contribution to the club as a player and coach. Was temporarily deprived of this post, the new President of the club Sandro Rosel in July 2010, as the club Charter does not provide for such office. Became the embodiment of not only the entire Dutch football, but a whole style of the so-called total football, in which first started to play his team Ajax and the Netherlands team pattern of the beginning of the 1970s. Cruyff three times in a row won with «Ajax» Cup of Champions and eight times won the championship in the Netherlands, till he left in 1973 in Barcelona for a record sum for those times transfers. Later that year, he led the national team to the world championship where she lost to the Germans (1:2). In the next cycle Cruyff helped нидерландцам to overcome the qualifying stage, but in anticipation of the final tournament in Argentina decided to finish the international career, not agreeing with the Royal Netherlands football Federation financial issues.
After his playing career he moved on to coaching. 1989-1996 under his leadership, the Spanish «Barcelona» won four of the championship of Spain (1991-1994), European Champions Cup (1992) and the Cup winners ' Cup in 1989. in November 2003, according to the results of the survey on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of UEFA was named the best player of the Netherlands for half a century. In 2006 he received the prize «Laureus» for outstanding contribution to the development of sports. on April 18, 2007, on the eve of his 60th anniversary, Ajax decided to permanently save him a t-shirt with the number «14».