Happy Birthday Johan Cruyff: 10 Ace Photos Of ‘Jopie’ In His Pomp

By Chris Wright

Huzzah! Jordi Cruyff’s dad is 65 today. To celebrate, here’s some Cruyfftastic vintage photos of him in his snake-hipped, flaxen-haired pomp (plus a couple thrown in of him just as he was beginning to move out of it!)…

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Johan Cruyff and Franz Beckenbauer recline during a training session for a New York Cosmos exhibition game against Tampa Bay Rowdies, 1978

As a little bonus, here’s some brilliant archive footage of Cruyff’s famous Impossible Goal (‘El Gol Imposible’) scored for Barcelona against Atletico Madrid in 1973 for you to savour…

He was really quite good in his day you know.

(Photos: PA)