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If you take golf, you have a teacher for the drive, a teacher for the approach play, and a teacher for the putt. That's three specialist coaches for one player. In football, one coach looks after 25 players.

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Johan Cruyff highlights the contrast between the coaching approach in golf and football. He emphasizes that in golf, players have multiple specialized coaches for different aspects of the game, while in football, one coach is responsible for a larger group of players.
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Athlete, Dutch
Johan Cruyff was a legendary Dutch football player and coach.
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