"For those of us who were able to meet him, he changed our lives," he says. Marjolijn van der Meer When you ask him about Johan Cruyff, the Dutchman who changed Barça's history twice—once as a player and once as a coach—died 10 years ago. "It's beautiful when people who didn't get to know him, something we did, explain it to us." as Johan marked them. "There were people who wanted to dress like him, play like him, or style their hair like him," recalls the woman who played a key role in Cruyff's ability to change the course of Barça. And of Catalonia, too. "Are we exaggerating when we say that Cruyff changed Catalonia? I don't think so. There was a terrible dictatorship then. It lasted many years. So many years of dictatorship leave their mark on people. It's hard to be brave. And he was brave." "He taught us not to be afraid," she asserts. She speaks in the first-person plural, "he taught us." Marjolijn, like Johan, is Dutch but also Catalan.