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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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Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.
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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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I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong
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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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It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.
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Without the ball, you can't win.
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Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs
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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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Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
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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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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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Italy cannot beat you but you can lose to Italy.
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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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The difference between right and wrong is often not more than five metres.
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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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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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Italians can never win from you, but you can lose to them. (when asked about Ajax's chances in the 1995 Champs League final against AC Milan)
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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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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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