Johan Cruyff and the End of an Era

Like most people of my generation from the Netherlands, my life is closely associated with that of Johan Cruyff, the Dutch football icon who died today at the age of 68. Wherever I would go around the world, from Canada to South Africa and from Kazakhstan to Chile, people would bring up "Kroif" and tell me about their admiration for "number 14" and their sadness that he and his "brilliant Oranjes" never won the World Cup.

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