I saw him play later for the Washington Diplomats. He was so far superior to every other player in that league, finally he got so frustrated with his mediocre teammates, he took the ball at midfield and dribbled around every player of the opposing team, including the goalie and scored an easy goal like it was taking a Sunday walk down the street. He Was The Best, even better Pele in my opinion.

Piet Keizer is my fav

@@bonanzatime THE BEST !!!!! Cheers.

@@piotrekes Amen Brother!

@@sandokhan1965 At last somebody who understands football

Same here...

It was perhaps your golden age and I'm not that young either. But looking at this football the quality is very low compared to modern standards. Players nowadays are faster, stronger, have better technique, passing, shooting, tactical insights. Ajax 1973 was the best of their time and they set a inspiring style and culture but calling this the golden age has no ground.

@@piregister that's right but the mentality of the teams was great! They just tried to score as much goals as they can. Now days they mostly try to avoid allowing goal from the opponent team

@@piregister It has perfect ground. Football nowdays is an americanized commercial product. Everything is robotic, mechanic, devoid of any other substance beyond mindless stats and made up media narratives to sell plus the plagues of agents and illegal betting. Players are dumb, uneducated, immature, effeminate, unable to perform under conditions that arent completely controlled and perfect. And they'are all naturally inferior athletes and footballers, compared to the old masters.

@@mskidi Agreed on all your side issues, but I choose to focus on the essence, the quality of the sport performance. Therefor, it was not the golden age.

Ajax me too, Cruyff me too, but 74, hummm Bayern very lucky in european cup + 7 july 74 : a terrible day for me, one of my sadest day.

@@zest5977 what happened in 7 July?

@@Pant10 maybe the world cup final

Van de Kerkoff

@@deutugal *0

@@deutugal PSV eindhoven

jonny rep

Blankenburg no beckanbauer is his name

No es solo las cosas increíbles que hacía..sino a la velocidad que las hacia

And the team who dethrone Ajax was the Bulgarian not famous and modes CSKA - SOFIA.The year was 1973.This is the team of the Bulgarian legend Hristo Stoichkov and it was Johan Cruyff who noticed his aggressive аnd unique style in 1990 / Hristo STOICHKOV nickname was the ,,DIGGER" and bought him for BARCELONA. and the Spaniards give him another nickname " EL PISTOLERO"/ THE GUNSLINGER/..AND i remember all of this...my high school years...The joy when CSKA / my team/ destroyed AJAX the GREATEST EVER...and i. Love Ajax !!!.

My hero in the 70s Holland should have won World cups in 1974 and 78 fantastic team

@@albertreynolds9287 Such a shame Cruyff didn’t play in ‘78 or they’d have easily beaten Argentina.

@@ZillianZilch Nicht unbedingt, da mit Rob Rensenbrink ein Ersatz da war. beide zusammen waren ein Problem.

It wasn't the first leg of the 'Champions League' it was the European Cup, a proper knockout tournament, not the drawn out money grab we have today.

@@Veaseify Same competition. They retitled it in 93. Sorry if you didn't know they retitled it. I assumed most football fans knew, so I didn't use the old title (but I made an edit to clarify it if anyone else is confused by the old title versus the new title). They have made changes to who can compete since then. I'm a Liverpool fan and I count the 4 times Liverpool won before 93-94 as Championship league wins. They have instituted the group stages (in 96-97) and allowed non national champions to enter (97-98). The group stages really became necessary once they added all the teams from a fairness standpoint. I really believe that it's tougher to win nowadays with the non champions in the tournament since you get teams that are almost invariably stronger than the national champions of many countries in the competition from the top leagues who wouldn't have qualified years ago.

@@shaunmcdonough9016 The Group Stages were introduced because Silvio Berlusconi was outraged that Napoli lost to Real Madrid in the first knockout round in 1987. It made no sense to him that the Serie A champions should be out of European competition in the middle of September (and of course he didn't want the same thing to happen to Milan). From an economic point of view he was absolutely correct but from a sporting point of view it is debatable whether it was a good thing. There is absolutely no chance of anybody outside the dozen or so biggest clubs in Europe winning the trophy these days which makes it pretty boring unless you are a fan of one of those clubs.

@@Veaseify Berlusconi was probably the main force behind the changes that occurred in the 90's, but I never heard that it was Napoli's loss alone that really spurred him to promote the changes. After all that was before his political days, so I wouldn't have thought he would have any particular love for Napoli and Milan won the tournament the next two years under the same rules. They could have addressed having a matchup of the champions from 2 of the 4 strongest leagues in the first round by seeding if they had wanted. I always believed Berlusconi was ultimately more interested in getting Milan into the tournament even if they didn't win their league and getting more games played to bring in more money. But his fairness concerns about some of the early matchups certainly were justified and I could see him not wanting to see Milan with a nightmare first round matchup like Napoli got that year. I just think they could have addressed them by seeding. You're correct that the odds of winning the tournament are remote if you're not one of the top maybe ten clubs in the world. Porto was the last club not from England, Germany, Italy or Spain to win and since the changes were made it is the only club not from those countries to win it (and the Portugese league is very strong, one of those right below the big four). But isn't the goal to see who the very best team is?

@@Veaseify Original idea was that best (most famous) teams play European league, but it was to hard (to expensive) in those times (1955), so they played cup system. Partisan Belgrade represented former Yugoslavia although they weren't national champions 1955.

Bah! Bastaba poner dos buenos medios defensivos mordedores entre el área y la media cancha para deshacer el tal "Total Football". El Ajax, y la selección holandesa de todos modos iban a ser poderosos, por los grandes jugadores que tenía, pero no las aplanadoras que eran en la Copa de Europa y en el Mundial 74 ( hasta la final , que fue cuando los alemanes los pararon en seco).

​@@powerdriller4124 tú eres tonto o te haces? Este partido es de la copa de Europa 🤡🤡🤡

@@mariolucatoni8755 :: El tonto que no entiende lo que lee eres tú ¿cuándo dije que este partido no fuera de la Copa de Europa?

Lol, you are either delusional or just stupid. Anyone with actual knowledge of football knows that is nonsense.

Before Ajax won their three EC's in a row (1971, 1972, 1973) Feyenoord was the first Dutch club to win the EC in Milan against Celtic in 1970. Feyenoord also played "total football" and was the best club team of the world during 1970. It's simply not true that Ajax or Cruijff (let alone Rinus Michels) 'invented' total football. Feyenoord also won the league in the years 1969, 1971 and 1974, while Ajax did in the years 1970, 1972 and 1973. Both Dutch teams dominated football during the first half of the seventies. The Dutch national team of 1974 consisted mostly of players from Ajax and Feyenoord.

Tell us something we don't already know!

But Feyenoord played the same way during that age. Not special 'Ajax'. The Dutch national team also created the same style. So it's the Dutch style of the seventies and not in particular the Ajax style.

@ Not everyone did know, but now they can know it.

@@Kleermaker1000 Thank you very much, for telling us ;)

And thay had all pretty long hairs :)

assoluto

Indiscusso fuoriclasse che sapeva far giocare...l Ajax...insieme

Der Kommentator, ich glaube es war Eberhard Stanjek sagt immer dasselbe.... Das waren damals seltsame Übertragungen. Zumindest weniger auf Show als heute.

Und danach 3 mal Liverpool

@@markusrippel5569 Ich bin heute zufällig an seinem Grab am Münchner Westfriedhof vorbeigekommen. R.I.P.🙏

not according to this performance--they were both pathetic.

FOOTBALL.....FOOTBALL NEVER SOCCER.IT´S DISGUSTING

Please... say football.

The strongest club team most probably. They didn't gave a weak point.

@@MrDaiseymay Totally agree 1 I watched this game live at a young age. I thought Ajax was fabulous. But these highlights show too much clumsiness on both sides.

Ajax 1970-71 1971-72 1972-73 Bayern Meunchen 1973-74 1974-75 1975-76 Intercontinental 1973 Ajax 3 Independiente 0 Ajax Campeon 1977 Bayern 2 Cruzeiro 0 Bayern Meunchen Campeon

and for the other games too..

@@d14400 Yes. The nostalgia and respect for those great legendary players/teams is deserved, but the post 2000's are bigger, stronger, faster with better training, conditioning, nutrition and medical.

They had more charisma. They were little gods. Now only marketing

@@diomedestydeus3298 so they are better athletes, but technically I'm not sure...

@@d14400 your talking out of your backside!!! Obviously a ******* millenial!

The Greatest club side ever.+The Greatest player ever No 14 J.C.

I seen No 14 at Celtic park in 1982 & i met him outside Celtic park in 1997 and i was talking to him.I asked him if he was going to become our coach? He told me he had commitments at Barca and was aiming to become president.What a brilliant person.My Favourite player ever.There will never be another

I'm from malta and i am a big supporter of the Netherlands

Al igual que hacía en la selección holandesa . En realidad todos jugaban en cualquier puesto . Ése era uno de los secretos de Rinus Michel y de la Orange 🍊

Igual que Di Stefano

I still have a T-Shirt with his name and face on it and i wore it the day he died........As far as the people are concerned the Netherlands won the world cup in 1974 'in style'.You have to remember his last season at FEYENOORD????

Yeah. It was last her games.

After the game Sep Mayer threw his gloves in to an Amsterdam canal...

Vos estuviste en ese partido???? 😎

What was the score in Germany in the return leg?.

@Manzarek812 The 1928 Amsterdam Summer Olympics. Ajax only used the Olympic Stadium for international games at this time.

@@detomasopantera1966 Did he miss it like he kept missing the ball?

Grande Ajax

Eterno Ajax

He was ethnically Hungarian, so he had the pedigree. Like Bela Guttman :)

@@caeserromero3013 There were countless Hungarian ethnics that excelled in sports under the Romanian communist regime, more even than in Hungary.I don't know why, but we have to look for answers beyond ethnicity. There were many world champions and record holders in gymnastics, handball, athletics etc..

Trespasser true I think Nadia Comaneci was ethnically Hungarian. At least my mother in law claims her, anyway 😂 Most Hungarians still claim the Carpathians!

And half the Steau Bucharest European cup winning team sounded Hungarian with names like Balint 😂

@@caeserromero3013 I don't think Nadia was Hungarian ethnic, her parents seemed very much Romanian. But the coaches were and other girl-champions there, Ecaterina Szabo and Teodora Ungureanu come to mind, but there were others also. From Steaua '86, the other Hungarian, the great Ladislau Boloni was one of my favorite players, while the legendary Duckadam is ethnic German I believe.

like FC Barcelona and Spain national team between 2008-2014

Chairetismous stin Elada apo to Mexiko.

Xero tin Ellada tin Athina.

Mou arese i Ellada.

Efcharisto u.

sos ciego ?

The family and believed that when we went 3-1 on Holland that we were going g to win 4 - 1 but Aries Haan kicked I one from 35 yards.Not a bad goal.Ps I am one luck person that I got to talk to .y idol outside Celtic park In cruyff.What a great guy was he.1997

I am a Holland fan and Arie Haan's 2 wonderful goals in 1978 World Cup will forever be amongst the best goals ever scored. But you didn't mention his weakness. Haan was not a natural defender, and was forced to play in central defense since Barry Hulshoff was injured before 1974 world cup. In the final, for the 1-st German goal, Haan let Hölzenbein to move forward inside the penalty box without trying to tackle him. Same thing with Argentina's 1-st goal: if as a defender you are behind Kempes and he is about to score, your only option is do a sliding tackle, yet it was Kempes who did that. Haan was incapable of tackling and sadly it cost Holland in 2 World Cup finals.

CRUYFF o melhor de todos os tempos, respeito mas eu discordo, eu acho que CRUYFF foi um dos melhores jogador de futebol de todos os tempos.

Soy orgullosamente portugués y el Benfica tambien estuvo en 5 finales de campeones europeas en los años 60, tiendo ganado 2 copas de campiones. Hemos jugado contra el Ajax de Cryff (0-0 y 0-1) en las semi de 1971. Teníamos un gran jugador mondial, Eusebio!!! Vamos a jugar con el Ajax y con el Bayern ahora por la champions. En mi ciudad existe un clube que se llama Ajax acausa del grande Ajax de los 70.....

@@SergioEstreitinho ese Benfica también es histórico, ya que fue la base de la maravillosa selección Portuguesa de Inglaterra 66

@@guillermoflores8975 Si, es verdad. Eran otros tiempos....

El golero Maier ayudó bastante a que se diera ese resultado.

Their second Achilles heel was not to have Gerd Müller, who happened to play injured, with a broken tibia, in this match. Chances are, Bayern might have fared differently in this match with a fully functional Müller. In the first half they were still in the game ...

@@christianvanneuves9958 You might be right to some degree. But the same happened to Ajax, in the 2-nd leg Cruyff didn't play at all due to injury. Ajax could have also defeated Bayern in the return match with a fully fit Cruyff.

I prefer italian kits, specially 63-64 season Inter kit, 48-49 Torino, 68-69 Fiorentina and the kit used by the italian national team in the 2000 Euro and 2002 World Cup