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It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.

Johan Cruijff

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If you want to play quicker you can start running faster, but it's the ball that decides the speed of the game.
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Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.
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Players today can only shoot with their laces. I could shoot with the inside, laces, and outside of both feet. In other words, I was six times better than today's players.
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Someone who has juggled the ball in the air during a game, after which four defenders of the opponent get the time to run back, that's the player people think is great. I say he has to go to a circus.
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Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs
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When you're playing against a team that has two great central defenders, the best option is to play without a striker.
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I'm not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.
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Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
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Surviving the first round is never my aim. Ideally, I'd be in one group with Brazil, Argentina and Germany. Then I'd have lost two rivals after the first round. That's how I think. Idealisitic.
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Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.
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For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world... Messi will be the player to win the most Ballons d'Or in history. He will win five, six, seven. He is incomparable. He's in a different league.
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When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average ... So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you're a good player or not.
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In small space a player has to be capable of acting quickly. A good player who needs too much time can suddenly become a poor player.
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Mourinho is a coach of titles, not football. Or rather, not a football coach if we understand the sport is a spectacle or entertainment for those who watch it, either at home or live in the stadium.
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Every trainer talks about movement, about running a lot. I say don't run so much. Football is a game you play with your brain. You have to be in the right place at the right moment, not too early, not too late.
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I still have a lot of room for improvement.
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If you have the ball, you must make the field as big as possible, and if you don't have the ball, you must make it as small as possible.
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Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate.
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