Brilliant Oranje

1 Johan Cruyff

And best ever European player. In those 'Best Football Player in the World' polls, he is never outside the top five.

Johan Cruyff was born in the Amsterdam's Jordaan neighbourhood, grown up in Betondorp, living in Barcelona, is by far the best Dutch soccer player ever. There is no more to so. It is all so logical (Cruijff always uses the sentence "but that is logical")

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