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Coincidence is logical.

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Playing against 10 is harder than playing against 11 players. You know why? The team with 11 will think ok, we can take it easy now, while the team with 10 will think We really have to work hard now.
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I always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked.
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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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The difference between right and wrong is often not more than five metres.
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I look at Messi, and he makes me laugh. A beautiful footballer who is still like a kid. A world superstar, but still a kid. Innocent, you know. He just plays.
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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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Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.
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There are very few players who know what to do when they're not marked. So sometimes you tell a player: that attacker is very good, but don't mark him.
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Football is simple, you're either on time, or you're too late. If you're too late then you have to leave earlier.
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I still have a lot of room for improvement.
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There is only one ball, so you need to have it.
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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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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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Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.
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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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YOU NEED BOTH QUALITY AND RESULTS. RESULTS WITHOUT QUALITY IS BORING QUALITY WITHOUT RESULTS IS MEANINGLESS.
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Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
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He has been outstanding. [Manuel] Neuer is an extraordinary goalkeeper, who would deserve to win it.
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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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If you play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball
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