# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johan-cruyff
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:56:35.863Z

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name: "Johan Cruyff"
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description: "The man who turned football into geometry. Three Ballons d'Or, three European Cups with Ajax, and the architect of a style—Total Football—that made the Netherlands a force and later reshaped Barcelona twice: once as a player who broke a 14-year title drought, again as a manager who built a dynasty."
tagline: "Dutch footballer and manager (1947–2016)"
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birthDate: "1947-04-25"
deathDate: "2016-03-24"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Johan Cruyff arrived at Ajax in 1964 and spent the next decade turning Dutch football from semi-professional obscurity into a European powerhouse, collecting six Eredivisie titles and three European Cups. His move to Barcelona in 1973 delivered La Liga after 14 barren years. He led the Netherlands to the 1974 World Cup final—three goals, three assists, a Golden Ball—but they lost to West Germany, and after finishing third at Euro 1976, a kidnapping attempt at his Barcelona home ended his international career before the 1978 tournament. He returned to Ajax in 1981 for two more titles, then crossed to rivals Feyenoord in 1983 and won the double in his only season before retiring in 1984. As manager, he won the 1987 Cup Winners' Cup at Ajax and four La Liga titles plus a European Cup at Barcelona, embedding the Total Football philosophy Rinus Michels had developed until it became doctrine. Voted European Player of the Century in 1999, he founded a charity for disadvantaged children in 1997 and left behind aphorisms that became everyday language in the Netherlands.