Follow-up: Maen Khalil
England champions Manchester City continued their good start in the group stage of the European Football Champions League, beating Borussia Dortmund 2-1, after a stunning goal from their Norwegian star Haaland, he had the coach say Spaniard Pep Guardiola’s reminds him of what the Dutch bird Johan Cruyff did 49 years ago.
City escaped a home defeat after England’s Judd Bellingham opened the scoring for Dortmund (56), before the English champions returned from afar with goals from John Stones (80) and Halland (84) ).
Halland scored his flying goal and the Norwegian star said about him: it was a beautiful and special goal, I scored a similar goal when I was playing for Dortmund.
Johan Cruyff scored a similar goal when playing for Barcelona, against Atletico in 1973.
Guardiola said after the game: “People who know me, know very well the impact of Cruyff in my life as a person and as a coach, several years ago he scored a goal at Camp Nou against Atletico Madrid, and it was close to Haaland’s goal, and the moment Haaland scored, I felt Cruyff in front of me, it was a similar goal.
Cruyff’s goal against Atletico is one of the immortal goals of “Flying Dutchman’s” career, and last July FC Barcelona sold their first work in the world of non-fungible tokens (NFT), inspired by Cruyff’s goal , for $ 693,000. .
The first work of this type was called Somehow, Khaled.
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