Auke Kok

About The Author

Auke Kok is a historian, writer, journalist and columnist. He has written several bestsellers in the Netherlands and has been nominated for and won a number of prizes, with his most recent book, 1936. We went to Berlin, named Sports Book of the Year 2017. Like the ‘total football’ of the heroes of Dutch team who reached the World Cup final in 1974, he is often called a ‘total writer’, regarded by Kok as the best possible compliment.

Books by Auke Kok

Johan Cruyff: Always on the Attack
By Auke Kok
'Terrific ... well-researched, well written' David Winner, author of Brilliant Orange

'Deeply researched...nicely written, and manages to get inside Cruyff's very bizarre head' Simon Kuper

Argumentative, brilliant, arrogant, visionary.

Johan Cruyff was one of the...
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