Cruyff: "Football and smoking were the passions of my life"

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Cruyff: "Football and smoking were the passions of my life"

Johan Cruyff admits that football and smoking were the two great passions of his life.

Johan Cruyff on the bench smoking Nou Camp

 

Another chapter that stands out in the memories of Johan Cruyff is the confession of his two great passions: "Football and cigarettes". Here the Dutch remember the ball, child, always hypnotized and that cigarettes were his great weakness.". In life I've had two passions, football and cigarettes Football gave me everything ... almost Cigarettes me away," he says in particularly emotional lines that recalls one of his worst moments: myocardial which he suffered precisely because of snuff.

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In life I've had two passions, football and cigarettes. Football gave me everything ... I almost Cigarettes removed

"The doctors told me that the snuff, 90%, had been responsible for my heart problems. It made me think. And I realized the contradiction in which he had lived for many years. I knew that smoking could cause cancer and I could have heart problems. So I was lying to myself, "he says.

Confess, likewise smoking because he believed that "it was good to combat stress, but it was another excuse. After the operation, I went from one extreme to another. We stopped overnight. End cigarettes".