Tributes pour in for Johan Cruyff - Football’s total genius

Johan Cruyff will be remembered as a visionary and an inspiration following his death at the age of 68.
Tributes pour in for Johan Cruyff - Football’s total genius

An incredible player and game-changing manager, the former Holland forward was diagnosed with lung cancer last October — a disease he had been confident of beating just six weeks ago.

However, arguably European football’s finest player of all time succumbed to the disease yesterday, surrounded by his family in Barcelona — a city where Cruyff did so much of his wonderful work.

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