The man fooled by the first ever Cruyff Turn in 1974 revealed that he is still stunned by the Dutch winger’s moment of outrageous skill.
The late Johan Cruyff, who died on Thursday aged 68, turned Sweden defender Jan Olsson in a group game at the 1974 World Cup.
The move at the Westfalenstadion in Dortmund went down in history.
On the left wing, Cruyff dragged the ball behind his standing leg, pivoted and left the Swede befuddled and staring into space.
The Group Three match finished 0-0 but the Cruyff turn would become a defining image of the Dutch side in the 1970s, which lost to West Germany in the 1974 final
Olsson was 32 when he was deceived by Cruyff's moment of magic and, almost 42 years on, the former right-back recalls the moment clearly.
"I do not understand how he did it. It was a fantastic sequence," he said.
"I thought I was going to take the ball. I still cannot understand. Now when I see the video, every time I think I have got the ball.
"When he is about to kick the ball I am sure I am going to take it, but every time he surprises me. I loved everything about this moment."
"My team-mates after the game, we looked at each other, they started to laugh and I do the same," he said.
"I laughed then and I laugh now. It was very funny. He was a world-class player. I did my best but I was not a world-class player."
He continued: "The players in my team, they all laughed because they know me - we laughed together in the changing room because everyone saw what a player he was. What more could we do?"
A goalless draw was an excellent result for Sweden, who went on to qualify in second place from the group before losing in the next round.
"I played football at the top for 18 years and never experienced anything like it." - Jan Olssen
It was the first of four times Olsson faced Cruyff, another meeting coming later in 1974 when Holland thrashed Sweden 5-1 in Stockholm and three-time European Footballer of the Year scored the opening goal.
The other two occasions were at club level, with Olsson playing for Swedish club Atvidabergs against Barcelona in the European Cup, but he never forgot his first encounter.
"After that first time every moment he got the ball I thought 'please, don't do it again'," Olsson said.
"I think I knew at the time it would become a famous moment. Many people after tell me, 'do it with me, the sequence with Johan Cruyff'.
"Many people say that and I do the same because I am very proud to have been there. My parents remembered this sequence.
"I played football at the top for 18 years and never experienced anything like it.
"I have the memory. It is a moment I remember every day. Every day I think about football, I think about Johan Cruyff.
"I had the pleasure to meet him - a great player, great trainer, great gentleman, I think he had everything."
