The day Cruyff's Dream Team sublimated football

When I talk to Guardiola, we always talk about that game. Yes, he was one of the best. ”This is how Ronald Koeman recalled yesterday the Barcelona-Dinamo played on September 29, 1993 and that he is considered, above 5-0 at Real Madrid or a 0-6 at San Mamés, as the masterpiece of the Cruyff Dream Team. Barça arrived injured from Kiev at Camp Nou, with a 3-1 against and with the memory of what had happened only a year before against CSKA Moscow. Then, he had been eliminated in the round of 16 (2-3) against all odds when defending the Wembley crown. Against Dinamo, Cruyff and Barça were that night more Cruyff and more Barça than ever. The Dutchman played it with a 3-4-3 in which he joined Bakero, Laudrup, Begiristain, Romario andEstaranz in the lead (Stoichkov was the foreigner who was left out, since UEFA, pre-law Bosman times, only allowed three in the call). Ferrer and Koeman were the only pure defenders. Barça was a gale but, in addition, they played ballet football. As it shows, the 1-0. A Bakero ball that Romario let pass with a gesture only within the reach of the chosen ones. Laudrup put the ball in the corner and, immediately afterwards, Bakero himself took advantage of a pass behind from Txiki for the 2-0. Rebrov (now Ferencvaros coach), made it 2-1 at the stroke of half an hour.

But Barça was again a cyclone in the first minutes of the second half. A header from Bakero. The decisive goal, once again, was put by Koeman from a direct free kick. Barça shot almost 30 times and crashed three balls into the posts. “I never saw a better team play, not even Brazil,” Romario said. The best phrase, as always, was put by Johan. “It was an advertisement for football.”