Yet on the pitch he represented the grittier side of the freewheeling style of play known as Total Football. Blessed with indefatigable stamina and ferocious tenacity, the hard-tackling Neeskens ...
Neeskens was part of the famed ‘Total Football’ Dutch sides that lost the 1974 and 1978 World Cup finals, and in 2004 he was named one of the 125 Greatest Living Footballers by Fifa.