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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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Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.
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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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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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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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In small space a player has to be capable of acting quickly. A good player who needs too much time can suddenly become a poor player.
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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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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 know I don't think there will ever be a time when the English player is not respected, and feared, across the world of football. The English footballer is very brave and strong and committed and there is always enough high-class players in his team to cause concern in any opponent. It is a national characteristic.
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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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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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Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.
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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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Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.
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Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.
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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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Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.
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In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.
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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'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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