Munich - friends they have never been: Bayern coach Louis van Gaal (58) and Holland football star Johan Cruyff (as a player runner-up in 1974, three times European Cup winners' Cup with Ajax Amsterdam). Now the many years of escalating hostility of the Dutch football greats.
Reason: Van Gaal takes in his recently published book (in an autobiography), the great Johan Cruyff. The 62-year-old can not offer the back and scolds. Causes of the escalating dispute is the Book Passage, in the van Gaal describes that he had celebrated Christmas with the family in 1989 Cruyff at Barcelona. That forbade students hosted van Gaal at Barcelona coach Johan Cruyff. Van Gaal spent three days at the Cruyff. Then he received a call from Holland, that his sister had died Riet. Van Gaal went back immediately to the Netherlands.
In his book, van Gaal now writes: "Later I heard that Johan Cruyff has taken me so bad and that I had never thanked me." These words bring Cruyff in Rage. "If I had said so little really, I would not as a human being are good. Van Gaal has really Alzheimer's, when he writes that, "railed Cruyff. And after states: "If you hear something like that, but you wonder if some one has a loose wire or cable. Normally I respond to something, but this time limits were exceeded. "
