Quotes About Nationalism

We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests.

For Croatians it means everything to play for the national team. Because of the past. A lot of people died in the war. It's like a duty for us to give everything.

I don't want to get to a point where I consider the national team a club team.

The national team has always lent its image to help Italy's problems over the years... The national team is more about uniting than dividing.

The national team comes before everything.

Being able to play at club level at a high level and then getting called into the national team, it's amazing.

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

I think there can be nothing more special than winning something with the shirt of your national team.

For me, it's important to perform in my club and with the national team as well.

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 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.

To be called up to the national team is what you want.

I was always happy to play for the Dutch national team.

Every player wants to be there in the national team.

You go around the world, and you say, 'I'm the top scorer for the Argentina national team.' I liked that.

Toni Kroos leaving the German national team would hurt me very much.

Every time I went to play for my national team, we spent together two months away from our families, as a team.

It's not easy to carry forward the national team because you have a whole country behind you. But I would be willing to take charge of the Argentina national team.

I feel I have the Juve shirt sewn to my body because I breathe it every day, but wearing the national team shirt is also an honour.

When I was younger, I showed my nation that I would always play for my national team, no matter who was there. If we had a good team or a bad team, I was there.

I have always fought to play for great clubs and to play for the Brazilian national team.

When the national team plays there shouldn't be club games going on.

I had to move out when I was 14 and live by myself in the capital of Croatia. That's when it got a little serious. From there, I played on the Croatian national team.