Incredible footage of Johan Cruyff training in 1973. Yes… 53 years ago. 🤯⚽️ And yet the message for players today is exactly the same: You get out what you put in. Cruyff grabs a coach, a few players, finds a patch of grass in a park and gets to work. No perfect training ground. No fancy equipment. No technology. Trees for goalposts. And they’re working on specific actions Cruyff needs to perform in games. He wasn’t just “doing extra.” He was working on his game. There’s a massive difference! For those who genuinely study football, there is so much to learn from every generation of the game. Sometimes we look at modern football as though everything we see today has just been invented. It hasn’t!!!!! A huge amount of what we see now is simply an evolution or adaptation of ideas, movements and training methods that existed decades ago. The game changes. The principles don’t. And one thing has remained true through every era: The players who reach the top, and, more importantly, stay at the top, they are usually the ones who keep working on their game. Not only when the team trains. Not only when the coach is watching. But outside of it too. Some call it talent, but the talent calls it hard work! #cruyff #johancruyff

Greatness really does leave clues. So here is one about Lionel Messi from David Beckham #messi #lionelmessi