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A fitting tribute to Cruyff

AMSTERDAM -- One day, you will be able to tell your children or grandchildren that you were there. You were there on Mar. 25, 2016 at the Amsterdam Arena to pay tribute to Johan Cruyff, one of the greatest players of all time.

You will probably quickly forget that France won the game 3-2 against the Netherlands; that France's Dimitri Payet played well, Antoine Griezmann scored a beauty of a free kick that Cruyff himself would have been proud of, and the Oranje, despite an abject performance for most of the game, still managed to come back from 0-2 to 2-2 before Blaise Matuidi sealed off France's win with a late goal.