Quotes About Football

Just naming Batistuta gives me goosebumps!

I am Neapolitan and Naples are the team from where I grew up.

Modern football is increasingly dominated by the coaches - their narcissism to put themselves above the team and their players.

I think Jarrett Lee is much better than people give him credit for. I think he's good enough to lead this team to a national championship.

Sure it's a dream to coach Napoli as well as the national team.

I came to England because I thought it would help me to get back in the Brazilian national team.

Any coach in football doesn't like national team games because it's out of your hands; you can't really control what's going to happen.

Guardiola, Zidane, who's doing a great work, Tite, also doing a great job in the national team, Simeone. These are managers I would like to work with some day.

For Brazil or any other national team in the world, to play Uruguay is a commitment and a very tough match.

Without sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.

Tite is doing a great job for the Brazilian national team.

I'm very proud of all the career I've had with the national team.

It's hard to be as good as Ronaldinho and Ronaldo were, but we're going to do our best, both myself and Philippe Coutinho, to get close to them and be the best players we can be for the Brazilian national team.

It had never been a decision to choose between the French national team or the Senegalese national team because I was growing up in France and playing in the French youth national team, so it was something really normal.

I will only be 29 in 2016 for the European Championships, but the French national team doesn't make me happy.

If I had not accepted Milan, then I definitely wouldn't have been called to the national team.

Italy is the national team most similar to a club.

It's more difficult to achieve something with the national team because players from several clubs get together and less frequently.

I think what African football needs is better organization, better structure, and I think, after that, we'll help the players to be more professional when they're coming to play for their national team.

I can't play for the national team if I'm not playing for my club.

I'm happy to play as a centre forward or a second striker, like in the national team with Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani.

I understand that it's always difficult for a national team to have a foreign manager. It's a nationalistic question that also flows into football.

I've played with Jan Vertonghen for Ajax and the national team.

In the national team, the armband always goes to the player with the most caps.