Volendam: The legacy of Johan Cruyff lives on in Wim Jonk's side

Total football and resplendent orange are synonymous with Johan Cruyff but it may surprise some to find the iconic Dutchman's legacy inspiring a promotion charge in the Netherlands' second tier.

When Wim Jonk returned to manage boyhood club Volendam in April 2019 he brought with him the staff responsible for implementing Cruyff's ideas during the 'Velvet Revolution' at Ajax almost a decade ago.

'Plan Cruyff' was a reform of the Dutch giants' structure and academy system credited with producing the likes of Frenkie de Jong and Matthijs de Ligt, with the focus on playing attractive football, creating a performance culture and developing young players through bespoke individual programmes.

Delivering this vision in Amsterdam was one thing but in Volendam, a fishing village 18 miles north of the Johan Cruyff Arena, the project is vastly different.

'The Other Orange' have traditionally been a yo-yo club, promoted to the Eredivisie a record nine times but not having played top-flight football since 2009.

With poor results and uninspiring football seeing both fans and sponsors lose interest, Volendam were in serious trouble when they called on Jonk and his team, who along with Cruyff had left Ajax in December 2015 following disagreements with the board.

Jonk's first challenge in his new role was to bring supporters back to Kras Stadium.

«They were sitting at the bar and watching the beer tap instead of watching the game,» the former Netherlands international tells BBC Sport.

«I wanted to play forward, defend forward, play the three-second rule, third-man options — all those principles to get the players used to what attractive football and attacking football means. It is nice words but there is a lot more behind that.»

On his first day