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Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.

Johan Cruijff

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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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The difference between right and wrong is often not more than five metres.
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There is only one ball, so you need to have it.
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Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs
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You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.
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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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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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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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Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.
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I still have a lot of room for improvement.
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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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I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong
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When you're playing against a team that has two great central defenders, the best option is to play without a striker.
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I'm not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.
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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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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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Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.
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Coincidence is logical.
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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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