Koeman And the "Dream Team": "it Changed history and mentality"

The winning history of the FC Barcelona writes , undoubtedly, from the name of Johan Cruyff. The one who created the current philosophy of the club, the person that changed the mentality of all an institution and the man that made possible the impossible: win the first Glass of Europe. Although it does already more than a year that left us by a damned illness, there is not better homage that his disciples follow his legacy by all the World. One of them is Ronald Koeman that remembered how was born the Barça current.

The current technician of the Everton made an interview for "Sport" in which, between other things, explained the doubts that had to arrive to a Barça that was not a winning team like the current. "The idea to live in Barcelona attracted us a lot to my woman and to me, although it also was true that in these years the Barça carried some seasons without winning important titless. And it finish to live a grave internal problem... (The Riot of the Hesperia)", explains the Dutch.

"I believed in the word of Cruyff and his project"

A Koeman that was the defence more codiciado of the moment, by what girlfriends did not be missing him. However, Cruyff convinced it: "it called Me, we saw us in Amsterdam and speak long and tended. Already it proposed me go me with him the first season, but preferred to follow a year more in the PSV".

"It was like an act of faith. I believed in his word and in his project. It said me that it went to change the Barça from above down. That it wanted to build a new team, a team champion, that was remembered by his form to play to football", and like this was.

The goal of Kaiserslautern changed to the Barça

With his goal, the Barça carried the "orejona" of Wembley in front of the Sampdoria. However, the Dutch remembers to Bakero and his as much as the most important. "The other day it agreed me that without the goal of Iniesta in Stamford Bridge, the Barça of Guardiola had not been able to win his first Champions. I say this because without the goal of Bakero in Kaiserslautern had not been able to arrive to Wembley", confessed.

Koeman Also explained where rooted the success of the Dream Team: "First, in keeping an idea of game, in believing blindly that with this football would make history. And afterwards thanks to the convivencia. We were all very fellow, went out to dine and to eat with the families. And another very important thing... We went to train and knew that we would amuse us. We happened it very well".

A Barça, the one of the Dream Team, that changed it everything. "First, it changed the history and the mentality of the club. It happened to be a team that conformed with very little to be a winning team. And this DNA, this style, has kept and has known improve", sustained.

With Johan Cruyff like father of all this: "it Was the best trainer that never had. And for the record it was not easy to work with him, was demanding and put broncas strong when it touched. But he put the first stone of what now is the DNA Barça. And we have to it to him appreciate evermore".