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The foundations for Total Football were laid by Jack Reynolds , who was the manager of Ajax Amsterdam for 33 years in the early 20th century. Rinus Michels , who played under Reynolds, later went on to become manager of Ajax himself and refined the concept into what today is known as "Total Football", using it in his training for the Ajax squad and the Netherlands National Team in the 1970s . A pupil of Michels, Johan Cruyff , who played in both the Ajax and Dutch national teams under him later exported the system to teams such as FC Barcelona . The term Total Football is also used to describe the effective, dominating play of West German football in the 1970s. The ill-fated Austrian "Wunderteam" of the 1930s is also credited in some circles as being the first national team to play Total Football. COMPETING PHILOSOPHIES |