Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.
It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.
Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.
Every disadvantage has its advantage.
If you can't win, make sure you don't lose.
Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate.
YOU NEED BOTH QUALITY AND RESULTS. RESULTS WITHOUT QUALITY IS BORING; QUALITY WITHOUT RESULTS IS MEANINGLESS.
Every trainer talks about movement, about running a lot. I say don't run so much. Football is a game you play with your brain. You have to be in the right place at the right moment, not too early, not too late.
Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
If you have the ball, you must make the field as big as possible, and if you don't have the ball, you must make it as small as possible.
Players that aren't true leaders but try to be, always bash other players after a mistake. True leaders on the pitch already assume others will make mistakes.
There’s only one moment in which you can arrive in time. If you’re not there, you’re either too early or too late.
You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.
If you play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball
When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average ... So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you're a good player or not.
If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.
Football is about making mistakes. Who makes the most, loses the game.
In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.
I find it terrible when talents are rejected based on computer stats. Based on the criteria at Ajax now I would have been rejected. When I was 15, I couldn't kick a ball 15 meters with my left and maybe 20 with my right. My qualities technique and vision, are not detectable by a computer.
Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.
To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent
Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.
There's not one club in Europe with an anthem like You'll Never Walk Alone. There's not one club in the world so united with their fans. I sat there watching the Liverpool fans and they sent shivers down my spine. A mass of 40,000 people became one force behind their team. That's something not many teams have. For that I admire Liverpool more than anything.
The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends to kick the ball in his own goal. It's because when you put intense pressure on him, he loses control. So you have to increase the tempo of the game and he'll automatically give the ball away.
In small space a player has to be capable of acting quickly. A good player who needs too much time can suddenly become a poor player.
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