Cruyff reinvents football with the Dutch in 1974.Johann Cruyff's 1970's Clockwork Orange gave the world Total Football - the mesmerizing, flowing possession game of precision passing where players interchange positions freely. The Dutch don't just want to win, they want to win in style. As Cruyff himself has said this 'kind of arrogance' has been their Achilles heel both on and off the field. Their insistence on finesse has meant they've lacked that final bit of grit necessary to bury more physical opposition. Equally they've typically had infighting as their world class talent fail to subsume their individual egos for the good of the national side as a whole. Despite these hurdles their game is easy on the eye and they have some of the best fans in the world. Could this be the historic year the Oranje put it all together and finally win the World Cup?
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