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

—  Johan Cruyff

reported in Ramón Calderón's Newsweek.com column http://www.newsweek.com/johan-cruyff-ramon-calderon-barcelona-real-madrid-440545 (24 March 2016).

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