{"id":528899,"date":"2026-03-11T10:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/528899\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:41:07","slug":"exclusive-first-look-at-soccer-icons-life-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/528899\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive First Look At Soccer Icon’s Life & Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Here\u2019s the first clip from Cruyff<\/a>, Box to Box<\/a>\u2019s series about Dutch soccer legend Johan Cruyff<\/a>. The four-part documentary from the Formula 1: Drive to Survive<\/a> producers will feature contributions from some of soccer\u2019s biggest names including Pep Guardiola, Xavi Hern\u00e1ndez, Dennis Bergkamp and Ruud Gullit. The clip shows Guardiola, a Cruyff prot\u00e9g\u00e9, with his mentor.<\/p>\n

\n\tBox to Box is producing with Dutch outfit Lusus. The filmmakers had unprecedented access to the Cruyff family\u2019s private archives, including unseen home movies and a series of deeply personal audio recordings Cruyff made in the final months of his life. Previously unheard, these form a narrative thread throughout the doc, as the sports star reflects on his life.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series also has Cruyff\u2019s lifelong partner, Danny, and children Jordi, Chantal and Susila speak openly about his life beyond the pitch for the first time. Jordi Cruyff said: \u201cFor many years our family kept much of Johan\u2019s private world out of the spotlight. This series gave us the opportunity to tell the story in a more complete way and to share the man we knew with the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCruyff, who died in 2016, is one of the greatest players the beautiful game has ever known. He also shaped the way the game is played. He won the coveted Ballon d\u2019Or three times in a career that saw him turn out for European giants Ajax and Barcelona. Cruyff also captained the Netherlands\u2019 national team. He returned to coach Ajax and Barca in a glittering managerial career.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCruyff changed the way football is played, but what fascinated us was the way his ideas extended far beyond the game, asking us to see the familiar in radically new ways,\u201d said Sam Blair, series Director. \u201cThrough extraordinary access to his family, their private archives, and the recordings he made in the final months of his life, we were able to uncover the man behind that revolution, and tell a unique story about a visionary who challenged everything around him, and whose ideas continue to shape the world today.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBox to Box\u2019s previous sports biopics include Senna and Diego Maradona. Pubcaster NPO will air Cruyff in the Netherlands. There will be a premiere event at Amsterdam\u2019s Johan Cruyff Arena, where tens of thousands will gather for a public screening.<\/p>\n

\n\tDanny Goldman from Goldridge Media is distributing the doc series and discussions are underway with international broadcasters and platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Here\u2019s the first clip from Cruyff, Box to Box\u2019s series about Dutch soccer legend Johan Cruyff. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[207702,207703,49,48,207704,12546,207705,207706,561,82],"class_list":["post-528899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-box-to-box","tag-box-to-box-films","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cruyff","tag-fc-barcelona","tag-formula-1-drive-to-survive","tag-johan-cruyff","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}