Join us as we follow the steps of Frank Rijkaard, the man whose choreography culminated into the careers of Vieira to Busquets.
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
These words uttered by Neil Armstrong on the 21st of July, 1969 resound as heavily in this age as they did all the way back then. When the American astronaut became the first human to step on the moon, the world knew something had changed – things would never be the same.
Eleven years later, on the 23rd of August, 1980, a young kid took his first step in a professional football game. Unlike the aforementioned event, however, when Frank Rijkaard, an 18-year-old with a head as full of hair as it was of dreams, made his first appearance in professional football, the world did not know that football was about to change. It was one step that seemed small at the time, but it became one giant leap for the game as we know it today.