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There is only one ball, so you need to have it.
Johan Cruijff
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If my forward arrives in a one vs one situation, I always say: 'let him work it out.' Then my players say: But we can help him!'. My reply is: First, there's a good chance you'll only run in his way, and as a second attacker you're drawing a second defender with you, and two vs two is harder than one vs one.'
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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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Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.
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Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
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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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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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There’s only one moment in which you can arrive in time. If you’re not there, you’re either too early or too late.
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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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I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong
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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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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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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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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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Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.
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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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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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Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs
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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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