Quotes About National team

My objective is to coach the national team.

I have been at Leicester since I was 12 and to play for England at the King Power is obviously going to be my dream.

When I played for Hannover I had several offers, also - as I have been told - from Hamburg, Bremen and Bayern. Back then I already was a German international and Bayern would have loved to have the complete German national team.

It will be my fourth Olympics. I don't know if I'll have a chance to play more. I think four is a good number. After 16 years on the national team, I'm not going to get to 2020. It's a little bit too far for me.

If it's good for me to go to the national team and play there - not just go there to give experience but to play and be useful - I think it's good.

Lee Chung-yong has been playing well and trying hard at Bolton and has grown in confidence. His improvement is valuable for the national team.

At some point, I would like to coach Argentina, but I have to improve as a coach. I would like to do it in the final stretch of my career.

People in the U.K. should support who they want to but I would like them to think that playing for England is an option.

I have three goalkeepers who really inspired me. Jens Lehmann was my idol because he played for Schalke and was really progressive in the way he developed the position in Germany. I also have a lot of respect for all that Oliver Kahn achieved with the national team. Outside Germany, I would add that Edwin van der Sar was a big role model.

Van Basten went directly to the national team without coaching any other clubs. It's not the norm in Italy.

I was sad when Van Gaal left the national team, but I was also sad when Hiddink left.

Switching from left-winger to left-back was not as difficult as you might imagine because I have played there many times before for the national team and also for the Vancouver Whitecaps.

To be in the national team is wonderful in it's own right. For me, playing against Brazil or Venezuela is the same.

I had role models in my community, guys that were older than me and played at university or on the national team. Eli Pasquale was always around UVic when I was a young player, and the national team was around Victoria a little bit, so I got to watch those guys and learn from them.

I don't think Curcic is up to the task. I'd like to be more positive, but a coach who has not been in charge of a top team aiming for titles does not have the potential, the authority, or the knowledge to lead a national team to victories.

So long as I keep performing week in, week out for Everton, I will have the chance to stay England number one.

I'm a very lucky guy to play for my country, and I'm very happy and lucky to have this country.