“… In the summer of 1981, six years old and bitten hard by the football bug, I used my pocket money to buy a book from a rummage sale. I never knew the book’s title. By the time I got my hands on it, it had lost its cover. But turning its dog-eared pages, causing its spine to creak horribly, felt like entering another world. Besides a chronicle of every World Cup from 1930 to 1974, it contained a list of the greatest players of all time. It was dominated by British players, some of them familiar, but sprinkled among them were exotic names I had never seen before, legendary players from far-off lands. …”
NY Times/The Athletic
Johan Cruyff
Introducing The Soccer 100: A celebration of the greatest players in the sport’s history
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