Early life

Hendrik Johannes "Johan" Cruyff was born on 25 April 1947 in the Burgerziekenhuis Hospital in Amsterdam. He grew up on a street five minutes away from Ajax's stadium, his first football club. Johan was the second son of Hermanus Cornelis Cruijff (1913-1959) and Petronella Bernarda Draaijer (1917-2007), from a humble, working-class background in east Amsterdam. Cruyff

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