The day that Cruyff turned into banner against the tobacco

The one who went until does very few years president of honour of the Barça after having been star and reference of the club so much from the lawn as from the bench, Johan Cruyff, suffers at present cancer of lung and 20 years ago starred an announcement against the tobacco

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It does almost 25 years, on 26 February 1991, Johan Cruyff saw forced to leave his life of usual smoker in the benches of the FC Barcelona when suffering a coronary insufficiency in acute phase, what forced him to go through the operating theatre and subject to a double "bypass" to continue living with normality changing the cigarettes by candies with stick, that did famous.

Like consequence of the fright suffered by the Dutch, that feared by his life before winning the first Glass of Europe of the FC Barcelona, after quiting smoking accessed to record an announcement of the Government of Catalonia in which it promoted the healthy sport and without smoke, in a "spot" that concienció to all the sportsmen of around the globe that the tobacco is one of the worst enemies of the sport and of the life in general.

"The football has given it to me everything in the life, instead smoke almost removes it to me", preached Johan Cruyff in the announcement in question, turning into all a banner in the fight against the tobacco in the world of the sport. The newspaper "Sport" has recovered said announcement, that are them to continuation thanks to "Ovideo TV":