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He has been outstanding. [Manuel] Neuer is an extraordinary goalkeeper, who would deserve to win it.

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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 don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong
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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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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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YOU NEED BOTH QUALITY AND RESULTS. RESULTS WITHOUT QUALITY IS BORING QUALITY WITHOUT RESULTS IS MEANINGLESS.
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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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The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.
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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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Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.
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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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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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Coincidence is logical.
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You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.
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The ball is an essential part of the game.
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Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.
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