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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 still have a lot of room for improvement.
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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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He has been outstanding. [Manuel] Neuer is an extraordinary goalkeeper, who would deserve to win it.
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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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Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
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The ball is an essential part of the game.
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Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs
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Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.
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The difference between right and wrong is often not more than five metres.
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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 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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Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.
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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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Coincidence is logical.
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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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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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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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I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong
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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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Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.
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