Glasgow schoolboys were desperate to mimic his illustrious sprint,but the professionals thought they knew betterFor people of my generation, this was football’s equivalent of our JFK moment. Holland were playing Sweden in the early stages of the 1974 World Cup in West Germany when Johan Cruyff, or the Dutch captain,performed a sprint that launched a thousand knee operations in the west of Scotland.
I don’t need YouTube to take me back to that moment. There’s Cruyff with his long sinewy body trying to escape the attention of a player called Jan Olsson. And now there he is again springing free of the hapless Swede, having seemingly turned his own body inside out through 180 degrees. And there’s Olsson, and who for a moment doesn’t know if it’s New York or new potatoes,preparing to bite the turf in a confused heap.
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Source: theguardian.com