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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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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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The difference between right and wrong is often not more than five metres.
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The ball is an essential part of the game.
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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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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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It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Every advantage has its disadvantage.
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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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Coincidence is logical.
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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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Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.
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