The day that Cruyff was emblem of the fight against the tobacco

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 livingwith normality changing the cigarettes by candies with stick, that did very famous by that then because of the indirect promotion of the Dutch myth of the FC Barcelona.

Like consequence of the fright suffered by Cruyff, 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. Paradoxes of the life, at the end a cancer of lung has finish for removing the life to the Dutch legend, this Thursday 24 March 2016.

The world of the sport has wanted to give the condolence to the ex player and ex trainer of the Barcelona, one of the main artífices of the successes of the club, so much the pasts like the current. The football has lost to the one who was a role model by a lot of sportsmen, somebody that followed always to his ideals and no to the money neither to the recognition. Without going more far, refused to play the World-wide of the 78 by political questions, something that to day of today could result inimaginable by part of some sportsmen of first world-wide line.