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Messi is the great player of this generation, like there were great players in other generations.

Michel Patini

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Michel Patini
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 21
Association Football Manager
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Michel François Platini
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We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side.
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The European Commission says that people who are working the country can play in the national team. Perhaps Didier Drogba can play for England after five years. We have to protect against that.
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I began by playing for the biggest club in the Lorraine region, went on to the biggest club in France and ended up with the biggest in the world.
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What differences were there between Maradona and Platini?
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I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all.
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I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.
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What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange.
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I'm well-educated person. I don't reurn the gift
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Footballing qualities can be developed, but Stoichkov is a player with character and inborn talent. I've seen him produce fantastic plays even from impossible situations... I couldn't believe it, when I heard that I used to be his idol.
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The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.
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At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home.
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When I follow the finals of the European Cups, I look at all the aspects surrounding protocol, to get some ideas. I am interested in personalities, sponsors and the stands. But as soon as the whistle goes, it's all on the pitch.
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Messi has all the conditions to be the best, but first he has to beat Maradona, Romario and then eventually Pele.
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