What's wrong with Cruyff?

This should be the worst tackle in this WC!

The Dutch legend Johan Cruyff upsetted many people in his country when he said before the final that he wants Spain to win the cup as they play a more beautiful football.

After the final, he launched an attack on the way Netherlands played "And regrettably, sadly, they played very dirty. So much so that they should have been down to nine immediately, then they made two [such] ugly and hard tackles that even I felt the damage. This ugly, vulgar, hard, hermetic, hardly eye-catching, hardly football style, yes it served the Dutch to unsettle Spain. If with this they got satisfaction, fine, but they ended up losing. They were playing anti-football."

The way I see this criticism, is very much like Pele and Milla before the World Cup. It is about jealousy.

Cruyff till today is regarded as the best ever hero for the Orange, and played beautiful football in 1974 but failed to win the cup. I don't think that he wants other new stars to make what he failed to do.

Ironically, Cruyff deserved a red card at 1974 final with also an English referee Jack Taylor.
He kept arguing with the ref after the first half, and he gave him a yellow card. Just few minutes in the second half, Cruyff did a very bad tackle on Sepp Maier, the German keeper, and he was VERY lucky that he was not sent off.

Cruyff big mouth:
Cruyff is famous with his big mouth that caused him some trouble:

- We talked about the yellow card in 1974 final, that was about to turn into red.
- Cruyff says, that he decided to retire at his best performance, because he insulted many people on his time. He didn't want to wait his peformance decline and they pay him back.
- It caused him and the Dutch the 1978 World Cup. He decided to pull out from the Orange at 1978 World Cup. It is said that it was protest on political situation in Argentina. Other stories say, that he was threatened if he played there, he would never see his family again. He talked about government links to Mafia, and paid the price.
- Finally, this recent media war vs. the current orange team.