​FC Barcelona head coach Hansi Flick has surpassed club legend Johan Cruyff with an impressive record. Getty ImagesFC Barcelona head coach Hansi Flick has surpassed club legend Johan Cruyff with an impressive record. As the back-to-back La Liga champions, the Blaugrana have started 2026/2027 in roaring fashion with four wins out of four. Three of those victories have seen Barca raise a “manita” by scoring five goals, and they also did that in the Champions League in torrential rain on Wednesday by putting the same amount of strikes past Feyenoord while the Dutch could only respond with one. Speaking of the Eredivisie giants, they were Cruyff’s last club as a player in the mid-1980s before he went into coaching.He first manned the Ajax dugout, and then returned to start a revolution at FC Barcelona in 1988 which took in a revamp of La Masia and the club’s playing style, its maiden Champions League crown at Wembley, and four consecutive La Liga triumphs.With two Spanish top fights under his belt, Flick is on the road to emulating the “Eternal Johan”, who passed in 2o16.Thanks to the 0-5 masterclass drubbing of Valencia at the Mestalla on Sunday, the former Bayern Munich boss reached 60 games as La Liga leader surpassing Cruyff’s 59.What’s more impressive is that he only needed 80 games to do it, while Cruyff required 300 in the early 1990s before stepping aside in 1996. Flick continues to honour Cruyff at FC BarcelonaThe playing style that Cruyff brought to the Spotify Camp Nou is non-negotiable, and Flick continues to honour it a decade after the legend’s passing. President Joan Laporta is a known Cruyffista, who emotionally called Johan the most important figure in the club’s history above even Lionel Messi.But Laporta’s 2024 appointment of the treble winner with Bayern Munich was no coincidence, with Flick also opting for a brave, front foot forward approach to football where the MO is much like Cruyff’s in “if you score four, we’ll score five”. “I look in Flick’s eyes and I think about Johan Cruyff,” Laporta once said, while having also written a letter to his current tactician where this topic was referenced.Looking to stay top for 61 weeks, FC Barcelona travels to Levante on Sunday and kicks off at 16.15 local time. This article was originally published on Forbes.com