Words of Wisdom

There is no better way to get an Oranje fan up and ready to go than to throw a Cruyff quote at them and watch the smile spread across their faces. Some are funny, some are surprising but all of them will make you smile. Keep in mind that these posts are courtesy of friend, Jan who did the translating and provided the context within the quotes took place. On to the first:

When JC just started coaching Barca, he was asked a question during a press conference. He later confessed, that he actually gave the answer in Dutch in his head, before translating it for the Spanish press.
Now, in Dutch we have a little phrase that goes “op een gegeven moment”, which translates into English something like: “at a given time, or at a given moment”. This is a phrase the Spanish language does not have. JC didn’t know, so he started his answer with: :Un momento dado…” Nobody understood this. A moment was given?? By whom? To whom? How??? Everyone was clueless. But JC didn’t know, and he went on to use that phrase ad nauseum (he does say it a lot in Dutch too) until 1) people started to get what he meant and 2) (after a while) it became a popular and “normal” phrase in Spanish too. In fact, it is now added to the official Spanish dictionary.