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My Turn: The Autobiography
- Narrated by: William Brand
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Summary
Johan Cruyff is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in football history. Throughout his playing career, he was synonymous with Total Football, a style of play in which every player could play in any position on the pitch. Today his philosophy lives on in teams across Europe, from Barcelona to Bayern Munich, and players from Lionel Messi to Cesc Fabrecas.
My Turn tells the story of Cruyff's life starting at Ajax, where he won eight national titles and three European Cups before moving to Barcelona, where he won La Liga in 1973, his first season, and was named European Footballer of the Year. He won the Ballon d'Or three times and led the Dutch national team to the final of the 1974 World Cup, famously losing to West Germany and receiving the Golden Ball as the player of the tournament.
While on the field Cruyff was in total control, off the field his life was more turbulent, with a kidnapping attempt and bankruptcy. After retiring in 1984, he became a hugely successful manager of Ajax and then Barcelona, where he won the Champions league with a young Pep Guardiola in his team. In 1999 Cruyff was voted European Player of the Century and came second behind Pelé in the World Player of the Century poll.
In March 2016 Cruyff died after a short battle with lung cancer, bringing world football to a standstill in an outpouring of emotions. Johan Cruyff was a brilliant teacher and analyst of the game he loved, and My Turn is his legacy.
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- David L. Hamilton
- 28-04-24
Great story but bizarre narration
Loved the story of Cruyff but couldn't get to end as he increasingly irritated by the bizarre narrator's over pronunciation (incorrect too) of any name or stadium. Dutch, Spanish, German even English got a strange attempt to pronounce in native language amongst an English audio. Shame but I gave up...
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-12-18
Outstanding
If you love football you will love love this book. The blueprint of total football explained simply. Keep the politics out of football and let the football men look after the football.
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- Mr A Bowater
- 26-07-21
A must for those interest in football history, Ajax and Barcelona
An excellent book and it works well as an audio version. His thoughts on how best to develop technique in young players are well worth taking seriously as he is analysing how he and the astonishing group of players he played with at Ajax developed not just the ‘Total Football’ system, but the technical and tactical understanding they developed while they were youth players that made their total football work
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- Rahul Pillai
- 21-01-20
good book for football.lovers
worth a listen...great person with a straight forward attitude.Good football knowledge usefull.for any youngster.Atleast we get to know ehy cruff dint play in 1978 world cup
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- Anonymous
- 18-03-21
No Complaints
Nice insight in to Johan's thoughts and life. There was a lot of club politics in the book but it was necessary, so I don't think the complaints of others are warranted. The narrator was slightly hard to listen to for the first couple of minutes, but after that, I had no issues with the narration at all, I guess I got used to the guy's speech. The narrator really wasn't bad in my opinion. Johan's my favourite football personality ever, it's a shame this book wasn't longer.
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- GRW
- 05-09-24
A total of Dutchman
Having lived in the Netherlands for 10 years, I recognise clearly the attitude and outlook on life Johan presents. A brilliant insight into his whole ethos and approach to football and life.
A shame the reader sounds so unlike him and amazingly his pronunciation of English names such as Cyril Regis, was far worse than his Dutch pronunciation! All in all a very good listen to the story of a unique individual.
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- Ethan Keogh
- 15-02-22
Really enjoying listen
It really was a fantastic listen, really great insight into one of the great footballing minds.
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- K Mylo
- 21-05-19
Masterpiece!
If you like sports and specifically football this is a must read/listen. This book has inspired the best coaches and Pep! to achieve all of their achievements. Thank you Johan, we will always be grateful for your ideas and advice!
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- Anonymous User
- 05-09-24
Everything - just the best!
Without doubt one of the best football books I’ve read!
Total football!
What a legend of the game he was.
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- Toby R.
- 18-12-17
My turn Johan Cruyff
Fantastic book autobiography
A real in depth into the great men’s life and what he thought
The audio version was read with real exciting tone and was very addictive
Well worth the purchase
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