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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.

Johan Cruijff

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Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
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I still have a lot of room for improvement.
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Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.
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Without the ball, you can't win.
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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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The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.
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If you want to play quicker you can start running faster, but it's the ball that decides the speed of the game.
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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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Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.
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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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He has been outstanding. [Manuel] Neuer is an extraordinary goalkeeper, who would deserve to win it.
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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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Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs
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In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.
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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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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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Coincidence is logical.
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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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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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