Cruyff Turn

Cruyff also perfected a move now known as the "Cruyff Turn."

Taarabt was going through his repertoire of tricks, adding a Thierry Henry pirouette on the ball to a first-half Cruyff turn.

Cruyff turn: type of turn named after Dutchman Johan Cruyff; designed to lose an opponent.

Lyttelton's principal weapon as a forward was a unique and generally successful goalscoring technique that appears, from contemporary sources, to have been a primitive version of the 1970s Cruyff turn.

There a few tricks employed quite so often on the playground as the Cruyff turn, a devastatingly simple premise barely noted by commentators in the all-singing, all-dancing age of the Premier League.

Mr. Davies said he had a photograph of the "Cruyff turn," a nifty move whereby the Dutch player Johan Cruyff faked a Swedish defender in the 1974 World Cup.

He would be remembered for the game in the 1974 world cup match in West Germany playing for Sweden v The Netherlands when he was the victim of the infamous Johann Cruyff turn.

Against Lecce in April 2007, he performed an impressive piece of skill similar to a Cruyff turn, turning the ball through a defender's legs on the wing, before retrieving it to help set up Juventus's first goal of the match.

The Cruijff Turn (often spelled Cruyff Turn outside the Netherlands; see IJ (digraph)) was perfected by Johan Cruijff who was immortalised in having this trick of evasion named after him.