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Sadly, they played very dirty. This ugly, vulgar, hard, hermetic, hardly eye-catching, hardly football style... If with this they got satisfaction, fine, but they lost.

— Johan Cruyff

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In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.

Winning is an important thing, but to have your own style, to have people copy you, to admire you, that is the greatest gift.

Quality without results is pointless. Results without quality is boring.

Every disadvantage has its advantage.

It hurts me that Holland chose an ugly path to aim for the title.

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