Laporta and Danny travel to New York to honour Johan Cruyff
Joan Laporta, accompanied by Danny, widow of Johan Cruyff, will travel this Friday to New York to take part on Saturday in the third edition of the Johan Cruyff Memorial. The event, organized by the Fundació Veterans de Sitges and the Catalan Institute of America, seeks to honour the legacy and the figure of the blaugrana legend of FC Barcelona.
At Riverside Park a commemorative match will be played at noon with members of the Dream Team that Johan Cruyff managed at Barça.
Guillermo Amor, Julio Salinas, Eusebio Sacristán and Jon Andoni Goikoetxea will take part, together with Santi Ezquerro, a former player of the club in a later stage.
Members of the Fundació Veterans de Sitges and other guests will also play.
In the afternoon an institutional reception will be held at The Knickerbocker Hotel, Times Square, with the presence of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and councilman Francisco Moya.
The event's press release bears the signatures of Manel Montilla and Javier Gascón.