New Delhi, June 20 -- "The goalkeeper is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender." Well, seeing this, any football fan would be speaker of the above-mentioned line foolish or doesn't have any football knowledge at all. But if delved deeper, one might fight the inner meaning behind this quote. The famous quote belongs to Dutch legendary footballer Johan Cruyff.

He believed in total football, and was against the idea of players being defined by their traditional positions - goalkeepers, defended, midfielder and forward. Instead, Cruyff opined that football should be played as a collective responsibility as a game of space and fluid lines.

Cruyff's main objective was to make everyone understand the use to the field collectiv...