Jordi Cruyff
| Jordi Cruyff | ||
 Jordi Cruyff (2009)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Johan Jordi Cruyff | |
| birthday | February 9, 1974 | |
| place of birth | Amsterdam , Netherlands | |
| size | 175 cm | |
| position | midfield | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1981-1988 | Ajax Amsterdam | |
| 1988-1992 | FC Barcelona | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1992-1995 | FC Barcelona B | 51 (16) |
| 1994-1996 | FC Barcelona | 41 (11) |
| 1996-2000 | Manchester United | 34 (8) |
| 1999 | → Celta Vigo (loan) | 8 (2) |
| 2000-2003 | Deportivo Alavés | 94 (7) |
| 2003-2004 | Espanyol Barcelona | 30 (3) |
| 2004-2006 | De Volewijckers | |
| 2006-2008 | Metalurh Donetsk | 28 (0) |
| 2009-2010 | Valletta FC | 19 (10) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1996 | Netherlands | 9 (1) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 2004-2006 | De Volewijckers | |
| 2009-2010 | Valletta FC (assistant coach) | |
| 2010–2012 | AEK Larnaka (Sports Director) | |
| 2012-2017 | Maccabi Tel Aviv (Sports Director) | |
| 2017-2018 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | |
| 2018-2019 | Chongqing Lifan | |
| 2020 | Ecuador | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Johan Jordi Cruyff ( Anglicised from Cruijff ; born February 9, 1974 in Amsterdam , Netherlands ) is a former Dutch football player and sports director. He is the son of footballer Johan Cruyff . With FC Barcelona he won the Spanish Super Cup (1996). With Manchester United he won the FA Community Shield twice (1996, 1997) as well as the English championship (1997) and the World Cup (1999).
Career as a football player
Youth and beginnings in La Masia of FC Barcelona
Johan Jordi Cruyff was named after his father, on the one hand, and the second name by which he is known, he was named after the Catalan national saint, Jordi . After his birth, Jordi Cruyff spent most of his childhood in Spain as his father was under contract with FC Barcelona . Cruyff, like his father, began playing football when he was young at Ajax Amsterdam. At the age of 14 he moved with his parents to Spain because his father got a job as a coach at FC Barcelona. From then on he played in the youth departments of the Spanish club.
Club career
FC Barcelona
His first position was the B-team of FC Barcelona , where after two years his father gave him the chance for the big football stage. In addition to some league appearances, he was used against Manchester United in the Champions League and prepared a goal against his future employer. With the end of his father's coaching career, Jordi also left FC Barcelona.
Manchester United
The only transfer fee that was paid for him came from the English island. He moved from FC Barcelona to Manchester United for 1.3 million pounds. There he won the championship and the Supercup in his first year . Due to a knee injury, Cruyff only played the first half of the season, with the exception of one game in the second half of the season. Another ankle injury forced him to take the season off again. In January 1999 he was loaned to Celta Vigo by Manchester and missed the historic triple. In Cruyff's last season, Manchester were again champions of the FA Premier League . Since Cruyff did not complete ten season games, he was not awarded.
Alavés, Barcelona and De Volewijckers
He then moved to the Spanish club Deportivo Alavés . With the club he stood in the 2001 UEFA Cup final against Liverpool. He scored the 4: 4 in the 89th minute, but the game was lost 4: 5 due to an own goal in extra time. After relegation in the 2002/03 season, he moved to Espanyol Barcelona for one season . From 2004 to 2006, Jordi Cruyff cured a knee injury at the amateur club De Volewijckers and gained match experience there.
Metalurh Donetsk and Valletta FC
After the knee injury healed, he moved to the Ukrainian club Metalurh Donetsk and officially ended his career there. He then retracted his career and played one season with the Maltese club Valletta . There he made his debut in the first qualifying round of the Europa League in a 3-0 win against Icelandic club Keflavík ÍF .
National team
Between 1995 and 2004 he scored two goals in nine games for the Catalan football team . He made his debut in national dress in 1996 in a friendly against the German national soccer team . Cruyff played nine times for the Dutch national team in 1996 and was nominated for the 1996 European Football Championship by then coach Guus Hiddink .
Career as a trainer and sports director
During his knee injury, he coached the Dutch club De Volewijckers from 2004 to 2006 and gained match practice there. In his last season as a footballer, he also acted as an assistant coach at Valletta FC. After his career as a soccer player ended in 2010, he became sports director at AEK Larnaka .
From the 2012/13 season until the end of the 2016/17 season he was sports director at Maccabi Tel Aviv. At the beginning of 2017, he first fired the Georgian head coach Schota Arweladze to install himself as an interim coach. On February 11, 2017, he presented the Portuguese Lito Vidigal in this role as his successor, who also became his predecessor on July 1, 2017, because on this date Cruyff dismissed Vidigal again and made himself head coach. In 2018 he worked for Chongqing Lifan in the first Chinese soccer league . In January 2020, Jordi Cruyff was presented as the new national coach by the Ecuadorian Football Association. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic , he resigned from his position in June 2020, although he had not yet looked after the Ecuadorian national team at any game.
Titles, achievements and awards
FC Barcelona
- Spanish Super Cup (1): 1996
Manchester United
- FA Community Shield (2): 1996, 1997
- English Championship (1): 1997
- World Cup (1): 1999
Web links
- Jordi Cruyff in the soccerbase.com database
- Jordi Cruyff (coach profile) in the database of transfermarkt.de
- Jordi Cruyff (player profile) in the database of transfermarkt.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Football: Lightning Rods of Frustration - DER SPIEGEL 12/1995. Retrieved May 29, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Jordi Cruyff in the database of transfermarkt.de . Retrieved August 17, 2017.
- ↑ transfermarkt.de : Israel: Cruyff son becomes sports director of Maccabi Tel Aviv
- ↑ Official: Jordi Cruyff becomes Ecuador's new head coach. January 2, 2020, accessed on May 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Surprise in Ecuador: Jordi Cruyff resigns. Retrieved on July 23, 2020 (German).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cruyff, Jordi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cruyff, Johan Jordi (full name); Cruijff, Jordi; Cruijff, Johan Jordi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |