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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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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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YOU NEED BOTH QUALITY AND RESULTS. RESULTS WITHOUT QUALITY IS BORING QUALITY WITHOUT RESULTS IS MEANINGLESS.
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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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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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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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Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.
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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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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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He has been outstanding. [Manuel] Neuer is an extraordinary goalkeeper, who would deserve to win it.
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Without the ball, you can't win.
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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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If you play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball
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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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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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The difference between right and wrong is often not more than five metres.
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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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I always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked.
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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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Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs
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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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