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Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.

Johan Cruijff

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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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If you play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball
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Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.
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Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.
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The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.
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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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Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs
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Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and great players in the history of United.
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One trophy is good, but two are better. That way, when a hero wears his medals on his chest, at least his steps are level as he walks by.
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There is only one ball, so you need to have it.
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In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.
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Often you see people who move there and then, once they have arrived, the ball moves here after which they also come here, but then the ball goes there again. I say: just stay where you are, then you are in any case at the right place half of the time.
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The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends to kick the ball in his own goal. It's because when you put intense pressure on him, he loses control. So you have to increase the tempo of the game and he'll automatically give the ball away.
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I'm ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end.
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I can be a new Di Stefano, but I can't be a new Pelé. He is the one that goes beyond the limits of logic.
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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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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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I find it terrible when talents are rejected based on computer stats. Based on the criteria at Ajax now I would have been rejected. When I was 15, I couldn't kick a ball 15 meters with my left and maybe 20 with my right. My qualities technique and vision, are not detectable by a computer.
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After you've won something, you're no longer 100 percent, but 90 percent. It's like a bottle of carbonated water where the cap is removed for a short while. Afterwards there's a little less gas inside.
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