Rinus Michels is number 3 in 90min's Top 50 Great Managers of All Time series. Follow the rest of the series over the course of the next week.
Rinus Michels is the most influential manager there's ever been. It's that simple. In that vein, picking out the greatest eleven players from his 32-year career in management was not simple at all.
But, it had to be done, and with a heavy emphasis on those who not only conformed but excelled within his exacting Total Football ways, it eventually was.
Without further ado, here's the father of Dutch football's greatest XI in, yes, a 4-3-3 formation:
Toni Schumacher: Pictured above with those unstoppable curls, holding aloft the DFB Pokal he won under Michels, Schumacher was the custodian for Koln during the boss' three-year stint at the start of the 1980s.