Quotes from Fabio Cannavaro

I'm definitely not a perfect coach and it's impossible to make everyone satisfied.

I began searching for my confidence on the pitch as a young boy.

I like the Klopp mentality but at the same time, I like the Pep culture about football because always we need intensity with and without the ball.

Sure, it is true that none of us is Superman. But when we stand together, we can achieve anything.

I never saw Pele, but I watched Maradona, for seven years I saw every game. He's not one of the best, he's the best.

As a defender, you can be many shapes and sizes. You can be short and fast. Or you can be tall and jump high. It doesn't matter. The only necessity is that you are confident when you take the pitch - because every week there is a new challenge.

We often talk about this VAR, this new technology. It's very important new technology. On the pitch maybe it's not clear. You cannot see... maybe from another angle in front of the TV it's much more clear. But it's, as always, football. It's easy to be much more polemic about this and that.

For a team of Evergrande's level, fans hope to have the top coaches and the coach will definitely face various pressures.

In my career, Diego Maradona had the biggest influence on me.

I played Zidane throughout my career, and for many players you reach a point where you learn lessons on how to handle them. But from the first match I played against him to the last, Zidane would find different ways to beat me.

If you want to improve the football, of course you need to put attention on the academy, on the school, the facility.

My ambition with Al Ahli is to be an example for the local players. They must learn that professionalism is the path to success.

I'm very proud because, all my life, I worked very hard to be a football player.

I think to reach a Champions League final isn't easy, whether it's in Europe or Asia.

If the opportunity came to manage Al Ahli then why not? I would also like to one day coach one of the globe's great teams such as Italy, Real Madrid or Juventus.

I love Forlan. He runs a lot, shoots with both feet, puts pressure on and he is intelligent and fast.

Conte is a good friend and is very charismatic.

I like Mourinho a lot. He has a good relationship with fans, and he always takes responsibility for his players.

My parents every day said, 'Ah, it's better you go to school, it's very important for your future.' But inside myself, I said: 'I think the good way is follow the football.'

You always have to dream big and think big.

Real Madrid? I don't have any nostalgia or bitterness.

I have played plenty of matches where I thought I had left everything on the field and given a game my all, but what I have come to realise since I retired and began coaching - 90 minutes on the field do not compare to life as a manager.

Prandelli is a coach with great experience and he knows how to work with young people also.

I had good times with Juventus but when you are offered the chance to come to Real at almost 33 years of age it is a great opportunity.