Johan Neeskens, one of the architects of “total football” and pillar of the great Dutch team of the 1970s, has died at the age of 73, the Dutch football federation said on Monday. “ With Johan Neeskens, the world of Dutch and international football loses a legend », Declared the KNVB in a press release, adding that the midfielder, Johan Cruyff’s most loyal lieutenant in the selection, at Ajax and Barcelona, died on Sunday October 6 of an unspecified illness. Neeskens was part of the Ajax team that won three consecutive European Cups in the early 1970s and was also a member of the Dutch team that reached the World Cup finals in 1974 and 1978. He had 49 selections.
Dutch football star Johan Neeskens dies
