Football's Greatest International Teams .. Netherlands 1974

In

1974

, a European soccer team revolutionized the

international

game by playing a unique style and adopting a new philosophy. Holland captured the imagination of fans around the world. but everyone was talking about the Dutch team for as long as you listen to it, you love the game, you enjoy watching it and you enjoy doing it, and that's how it should be for much of the 20th century, Holland was a quiet and unremarkable place for a flat and without distinctive features. country reflected in a conservative, introspective and old-fashioned population, as it was with society as well as

football

, professionalism was not allowed until the mid-1950s and as a result the Dutch game was slow and unrefined only once before, in 1938, did the Netherlands qualify for the World Cup and the post-war record was little better.

The federation was very poor, it was not organized, nothing to do with clubs, people who only did some things in their free time and that's why I met, because everyone was interested in the national team because it was nothing special, very good, sometimes we did something I didn't do and it was just a little disaster, but in the 1960s things started to change. Dutch society experienced social and cultural upheaval. Art and music became increasingly experimental. The Netherlands became the land of The avant-garde, possibly the

greatest

representatives of this social revolution were Amsterdam's FC Ayats, with their long hair and carefree attitude.

Aiex began the 70s by winning three European Cups in a row playing with a style and swagger that had never been seen before: it was a free game. Spirit Time and they were a free spirit team, but the same with good rock bands like the Beatles and the Stones at that time they had the discipline to make good music and they had the discipline to play good

football

, paying attention to that iyx and and and having IX revolutionized football and then the national team also everyone liked what we did we had a different playing philosophy we could defend play hard we could also play well technically and all that was thanks to the missiles in the Fermi Holland verdict in the

1974

World Cup, but it was in the events of the 60s and 70s, but Rinus Michels formulated the ideas that he would later apply to the national team.

Mickle believed the game revolved around the use of control of space, he required his players to be in top shape and able to swap positions his general was the architect of what became known as total football they were experts in the simple elements of the game kicking a ball accept a ball and a position played that talent they had I think one of the

greatest

things about Ajax At that time it was not only when we had the ball, but especially when we didn't have the ball, it took so little time to get it back if you have a game in which you want the ball and today you are going to leave your body.

Mickle reportedly nurtured the talent of players who would later prove so influential for the Netherlands at the 1974 World Cup, players such as Johnny, VIN Serbia representative Johan Neeskens, Arie Haan and Ruud Crawl, but one player stood out among the crowd, Johan Cruyff, was three times World Player of the Year and the captain of the club and the country not the issue of pressure was more responsibility my goose was a great help because he organized the organization off the field and I could organize it on the field the old man was Johan Cruyff was a football giant not only as a player, but he is a carotene and as a leader on the field, he was the one who really understood it.

Of course, we were all good players, but Johan was the biggest Nazi until Bill Young Tax, he was technically brilliant, things that only he could. You do great and when I played with him you didn't notice it right away. When you watch the movies, you realize how fantastic he was. He was a genius and he could decide the game by himself with paint on a tulip. Cool axes. The fire nerd rivals also influenced the national team, which won the European Cup, the UEFA Cup and the Dutch league twice in the early 1970s. They provided seven players for the World Cup squad and West aiex had Cruyff sacked. to the villain van hanegem van hanegem is a legend when it comes to football he has the best left foot I have ever seen the best skill so how did you do it he was a genius and not because of his speed he was not the fastest but because of his quick thinking o fade lo was excellent technically and could definitely read a match and when all that comes together you belong to the best players in the world, they are made by the best from one of the old irish where the iyx whore had a decent team back then but In reality, they were no better than fire, they didn't need Baker, their friend, they were often lucky to know that after us they won the European Cup three times and that's fantastic, this welder always eliminates us from the competition one silly way. on the forum, but that was the only thing, they didn't have a better team than Fire Lord.

I should find the touch of him if you look at Phi nothing and look in the eyes with different styles, but if you put it together with the best they had. Ferhanna Game and Johnson and Rhys Bergen, you actually created a perfect team, but the icing on the cake for the Dutch was someone who had never played for iooks or fired at only 22 years old. Robinson Brink left Holland to pursue a career in Belgium and make a real name for himself. for himself in life as a fast left winger Robin Nelson drink he was the Cruyff of Belgium I have never seen anyone like him they called him the snake man for his runs because he did things that were impossible rensin edge he had an incredible left foot , he was a top player, he was exceptionally good, he was a little man in the shadows, he had to do that, he played for the Belgian team, if he had played for iOS or for Feyenoord it would be a different story, but still I think that in The Dutch story Easy is an icon under the command of coach Frantisek Forints.

Mickle was appointed just three months before the World Cup. The Dutch began qualifying for West Germany by beating Norway and Iceland home and away, scoring 24 goals in just four games, but Belgium offered stiffer resistance. An earlier 0-0 draw against their neighbors in Antwerp meant that everything was still to play for, so more, honey, I joined for the game against Belgium at the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam, reversing, unfortunately, our last game in the group in which we had to tie to qualify. In the World Cups, the quality of the belt had made a very, very strong team and we were very lucky, very lucky because there was an offside goal, but I think 80% of people said it was a really good goal, so which would have been eliminated. they loved it Holland got a little lucky with that free kick and they said it wasn't offside it wasn't offside the painter said of course we said it was offside Christopher shaved on the goal it was disallowed and false, that's right as we really call it fun for Germany for goodness sake, everyone realized okay, we get to the World Championship and hey, we have a big name to defend these four years 69 70 71 72 73 all these servers, a Dutch team was in the final of the Champion, I call In the European Cup, five years dominating Europe, we cannot look like fools, it is impossible, Michaels came in, prepared the organization, we had a team created, we had some great players who we thought had been there for a long time and That's why it was.

Well, with Mickle now in charge, Holland had to go through a tough training camp leading up to the tournament. He demanded that the team play in his own way with an emphasis on permanent attack and to do so he made changes to the Dutch lineup. Michael just needed all the process he wanted. to go people who could play came with the idea of ​​putting young people not as goalkeeper but as the first good, he said, the first attacker Arahama shmita filled in Mary Hans as a midfielder, became a central defender alongside Rice Bergen, the fire North Flair.

As Yang Youngblood came in, there's no denying that Youngblood could play soccer, but he wasn't a great goalkeeper. Maybe because of the style of football we played, he was the best, especially when we tried to play offside. Ty Cobb, there were two sides. For Mickle he was a very strict trainer, but on the other hand, if the opportunity arose, he would be the first to join the head of the party, but at first we trained very hard and every time someone was late, he would make us start again. I mean, Michaels was a fun guy, but in his job he was very strict, he will stay, yes, one goal was to be successful with the team by playing football the way he thought it should be played and he did everything he could to achieve that. aim.

Ivan's food was difficult. I remember the night before our opening match against Uruguay. All the players had to go see Michaels. Come on, and he had a bag full of tennis balls and a racket with me because he was going to play tennis. Pete Kaiser is fine, so I go in to see my cousin, he's sitting there finishing up and he's like, what are you doing? What do you mean? What are you doing? Didn't you want to see me? Why do I have to tell you what to do? Know? right, with the girl, do you really want to play tennis tonight yeah, I said well, I said I'm on my way to play tennis, now go and play with them, actually, this egret, but I'm looking down the stairs and I'm thinking about this.

It's very smart because that's how he establishes responsibility, he says why I have to tell you right, that's what I should know what I have to do, we knew what we had to do with this set of ropes with the equipment now adapted to Michaels. vision of total football the Dutch were confident in their first World Cup match against Uruguay the South Americans were totally outplayed in Hannover Johnny rep scored both goals in a goalless win, a goalless draw with Sweden followed before Bulgaria were thrashed by one in Dortmund to consolidate Holland's passage to the second round beforehand against the McCoys and Arendt brings the nation out of this world he realized that they needed a good job to be considered a great player and and you also know that it is the first time They were hungry and you could see from the start that it was an inspired team the leg Vellamo felt eloquently as if every game was a home game of the catch there must have been 20,000 Dutch fans at every game Mayella with this it felt like we were playing in Holland In the second round, the Netherlands faced Argentina, East Germany and Brazil against the Argentines.

The Dutch produced their most brilliant display, winning four to nil and playing the most elegant football ever seen in a World Cup export. Oh, I scored a great game in that game. match that I will always remember, it is the same in all the matches I played in the national team, but the deeper philosophy was the typical Dutch weather, it was raining in Holland we played a lot in the rain, so the conditions suited us and our weather was our. style of play we knew we were better than them than Rada beta and we knew we could win everything Davina feels the football we played in 1974 the people who hadn't seen that before and power not me the way everything flowed naturally, all the food we would employ the tactic that if our left back was crawling forward and forward, he knew he had to defend, this is how he will move around these Vicksburg, it was very fluid football, I need my opinion, no one is more important than anyone else.

In the team one may receive more attention or has been better than a teammate, but in a team everyone is so important if they do not have possession of the ball that they cannot pass it to you and if you get it, we cannot receive it or we are very tight and You can't do anything with a ball. This is how the game will experience a new angle. We go out to win to win the game and this has been our mentality and how we do it. We're hoping, well, I'm not physically there so I need to book, so it's been pretty much that mindset where the transformation wasn't going back to all the local guys, it's not going out and trying to win four days later.

Back in the rain, highly rated East Germany were seen holding Robinson to the brink of scoring their only goal of the tournament. The Netherlands' last group match against Brazil was effectively the semi-final of the World Cup. A painful match but without a doubt the match of the tournament. How was this done? And we were able to play with great combinations. Fantastic football. Fourth book. All the other fingers are like art. Sometimes it can also be physical. And that was important because he was an integral part of the Dutch team. He left Islam Midway and knew he was going to win.

Brazil to zero, that was a great achievement. Brazil was world champion in 1970 and a small country like ours showed up and played Brazil off the field. It was really a game where everyone was focused and everyone did what they had to do, we not only played with the Brazilians but we played the best football to them, it was not only the result, the result in the end now could be 2 1 3 1 or 3 minutes or doing it didn't even matter, we just played football that the world laughed at and the data can see Brazil after five wins and 1 draw 14 goals scored and only one conceded Hollandhad reached the final of the World Cup for the first time in the Olympic Stadium in Munich, they would face West Germany, European champion and pre-European champion.

The tournament favorites, the Germans, had worked hard during the competition, but playing in front of their home crowd meant they would be formidable opponents. They had a kind of attitude that was quite contrary to that of the Dutch. You know he's a free spirit. Open mind. The Germans had a bit of you. I know they were playing a bit of counter football, they were different characters and all of that together created a sort of attitude with the Dutch that okay, we were going to teach him a lesson. We knew there were Germans. The Germans are always difficult. because they went to the end he knew even better reviewing we played better we were not afraid at all Holland took the kick-off and immediately began an extraordinary passage of play insolently moving the ball down the field and in a moment Cruyff had the ball at his feet with only goalkeeper Youngblood behind him, no German player had touched the ball when Cristo gave away an early penalty for lack of ovens and Johan Neeskens approached. the perfect exhibition of total football and the most explosive start to a World Cup final in history, you think Palestine had a style to surprise our opponents in the first 15 minutes, a lot of pressure, some movement and a lot of passing to try to score a goal. target as quickly as possible and declare open the year marshal death rebel we got off to a good start winning that penalty right at the start of the game but I remember thinking that might be a problem now because then we thought to ourselves they're German you know They are not our friends, so let's humiliate them in front of their own fans.

Now the problem was that half of our team decided to continue playing as if we had been playing the entire tournament. the hundred and the other half began to take them, making with them the same rate as you for the young people, they make deceptive and laugh badly why our game plan burst into the NBA in favored failure after for more than 20 minutes the The Dutch played the Germans, but halfway through the first half, Holtzman burned the run through a challenge from Vinnie Anson and once again referee Jack Taylor pointed out this point. Paul Breitner converted and just before the break Gert Muller added a second world with a lot of belief in our abilities, but then I went and held back a little.

I don't know why it wasn't like the Dutch team to do that. We always pushed hard to score the second goal or you played very good games in the World Cup and I really thought that we would win the last two, who knows, maybe that was where we went wrong, maybe we were wrong to think beforehand that we would just beat Those Germans, maybe we were too sure that we missed so many garbage opportunities, so many opportunities, so be cool. Well, but the details weren't there and one of the things was scoring because I think we played too confident and at the same time if you do that you don't do things perfectly and that's why we lost.

However, the tactic has a new tone of play. I didn't feel too bad, of course, we lost the final, but we were proud to have gotten there. I thought Holland had come from nothing in football to be at the center of the football world. Lancashire Water opted for football through that of course it was very important for us and the couples who felt the loss, the Dutch returned home and were greeted by thousands at Schiphol airport and many more in Amsterdam and Rotterdam a despite losing the final. Mickle and his men were nationals. Heroes understand formulas We flew back to the Netherlands and went to Amsterdam first, which was really unforgettable.

It made us forget the result of the final. Only then did we realize the excitement we had aroused in the country. What survey? So that's Lou. he did in the Dutch national team he had never achieved anything for the first time the whole country had seen every game until the final well it was a shame we lost but the enthusiasm of the public for us was enormous empanadas fantastic it was a fantastic party no p 'lice of the prime minister of the time there was dancing. I just didn't expect to get as amazing a reception as auditioning for Iran.

They may have returned home empty-handed from West Germany, but they had left a lasting legacy. In 1978 without Cruyff and Hana Gurmann Mickle they reached the World Cup final again, losing to the hosts Argentina and in 1988 with Nichols again in charge they won their first major trophy in the European Championship. I think a lot of coaches should realize what more is. It is important that today you win a trophy or that 40 or 50 years later they talk about the way of playing because what you do then is give support as a dream of how football can be played and that is something that a footballer but also a coach can Being very proud of this, Alyc built the lie that it's great that Holland lost his family.

Everyone remembers the Dutch team. I was in Saudi Arabia and I mentioned it. Good Davos to the people and they say what's up with Patrick Kluivert, but they didn't do it. I know who Patrick Kluivert was since I mentioned Renison Brink and they had the VHS on the wall shelf. Everyone said we lost because when they saw us play everyone was happy. Jada went home laughing and that's the best. That's life, if you can laugh and enjoy, it's one of the most important things you can do.