Many conjectures have been made about the attempted kidnapping of the Dutch champion in 1977. The most disturbing concerns the Argentine dictatorship, to prevent him from playing the World Cup
In the same hours in which a gunman in Barcelona – posing as a courier with a package to be delivered – breaks into Johan Cruijff’s apartment and points the gun in his face, in Buenos Aires, in front of the State Bank, hundreds of people are waiting patiently in line to be able to buy the first World Cup tickets that Argentina has organized for the following summer. The two events, which are only apparently not connected, will reveal themselves instead in the following months threads of the same plot, stretched on the frame of a story that for a long time has been shrouded in mystery.