BRUSSELS (AP) — Wim Suurbier, a defender who helped establish the free-flowing “Total Football” on the great Ajax and Dutch national teams of the 1970s, has died, his former club said Monday. He was ...

Suurbier was an attacking full-back whose role epitomised the "Total Football" style pioneered by the Ajax and Dutch national sides during his heyday. With Ajax from 1964 to 1977 he won three European ...

Wim Suurbier, who won three European Cups with Ajax and played in two World Cup finals, has died at the age of 75. Suurbier was one of the pioneers of the wing-back style of play in the early 1970s ...

Wim Suurbier, who resigned from the Fort Lauderdale Strikers Monday and said he would return to Europe, accepted the Miami Sharks coaching job Wednesday. “I wanted to stay in Florida longer,” Suurbier ...

Netherlands and Ajax defender Wim Suurbier, a key member of the 1970s Dutch squad who played in two World Cup finals, died at the age of 75, his former club said on Sunday. Suurbier, who won three ...

In this Feb. 21, 1974 file photo, the Dutch National team line up, who are to take part in the World Soccer Cup Final in West Germany in 1974, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The players are, standing, ...

BRUSSELS — Wim Suurbier, a defender who helped establish the free-flowing “Total Football” on the great Ajax and Dutch national teams of the 1970s, has died, his former club said Monday. He was 75.