Johan Cruyff, proud to avoid the exit of Guardiola

The relation between Johan Cruyff and Pep Guariola always was special. By a part and by another, the respect, affection and admiration always was mutual as it remains showed in the autobiography of the abortive Dutch. A book that is about to go and of the that does echo the supplement of the newspaper "L'Équipe" and that Johan wrote just before dying.

In "Memories" Cruyff spoke of his son Jordi, of the cual says that it was "the most affected of all" of all his stems by his decisions. Johan suffered by the career of this since so much in the Ajax as in the Barça was looked with lupa and accused, in some cases, to be benefited for being son of the one who was. It shows , to his time, "extremely proud" of him by all his career as well as the election to compete with Holland in the Eurocopa.

But going back to Guardiola, Johan admitted that the FC Barcelona wanted to sell to the of Santpedor but that it was he the one who avoided that this sucediera, seeing in his qualities something that anybody had seen until the moment. "The Barça wanted to rid of him. They considered it a flacucho, bad in defence and invalid in the aerial game. What anybody saw was that had the basic qualities to arrive high: intelligence in the game, rapidity in the execution, technical. If it had not been I in the Barcelona, would have been surely sold to a club of Second Division", explained the Dutch. 

Another anecdote with Pep that related the good of "the lean", was the one who took place in the moment in which they offered him the footpath of the first team of the Barça. Here Cruyff happened him the witness to his heir leaving him clear an absolute rule: "it Wanted first of all underline that he had to be the boss, the one who took the decisions and the one who assumed the consequences (...) In this sense, Pep is on the same line that I". 

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