Interesting soccer quotes

"I have spent some time wiht Arsen Wenger and Alex Ferguson, watching their training. It's speed, speed, speed. The mentality is to go at high speed all the time. I'm talking about training. In the matches you can se eit, but in training I have also seen unbelievable speed ........................ I was in Barcelona and I saw the under-17 team play a game in training against the first team. I didn't see any difference. 17 years old players from Barcelona with perfect technique, perfect position, perfect speed."
National Germany team coach Goachim Low in interview with World Soccer, summer 2009

 "As I see football, the easier and simpler, the better"

Pep Gardiola

"Capello told me to watch videos of Van Basten's goals and study everything about him, movement, finishing, timing, the lot, and score the same goals"
Zlatan Ibrahimovic

"Brazil are a really good, team, the strongest in the world - better than Spain - with a really good technique and pace but also really strong physically. You could see it with every tackle, every time they were one against one. "
Capello after England lost a friendly to Brazil 0-1 last September.

"Even if I had to play with ten men, I would not have him back. Every coach comes up against one unmanageable player in their career. For me, it was Mido"
Leo Beenhakker when he was a coach of Ajax.

"He was untouchable. He's not even that big, but he was so strong. I swear he had glue on his boot. I would make a tackle and think I'd won the ball, nad he'd keep it, with me looking an Idiot"
Nicky Butt, Manchester United player who was marking Zizou in the famous 1999 Champion League SF against Juventus.

"I went off the rail and I regret it. I was insulted, mocked and I reacted badly"
Zidane at 1993 after a red card with Bordeaux against Marseille.

"I have changed, I know there's no more room for illegal knee-jerk reactions at this level of the competition any more. If I do the same thing at the World Cup, there will be serious consequences"
Zidane after stamping a Finnish player in a friendly at 5 June, 1998, few days prior to the world cup. He only got a yellow card.
(13 days later, Zizou got red card in a WC game against Saudi Arabia)

"We always talk about the retaliation. It obviously has to be punished. What I did can't be pardoned. But, if there is no provocation, there is no retaliation. The guilty party is the person who provokes the incident".
Zidane after 2006 WC final.