Hendrik Johannes Cruijff, or Cruyff, was named European Footballer of the Year three times, but the UFWC title was the only international title he won in his 48 games for his country.

A difficult genius, Cruyff ruined the Dutch squad’s unique alphabetic numbering system for the 1974 World Cup by demanding to wear his trademark number 14 shirt. The Puma-sponsored star also refused to wear Adidas’s trademark three stripes on his shirtsleeves, playing in a specially altered two-stripe strip. He didn’t turn up at all for the World Cup in 1978, following kidnapping threats and his protestations against the Argentinean Junta.

Born in 1947, at club level Cruyff played for and managed Ajax and Barcelona. A former 20-a-day smoker, he swapped cigarettes for lollipops in 1991 after undergoing a double heart bypass.