It’s true, pressure is something that goes with football nowadays. You need to accept it, and everything that it involves – the good and the bad.
ZINEDINE ZIDANEYou rarely come across the complete footballer, but Scholes is as close to it as you can get. One of my regrets is that the opportunity to play alongside him never presented itself during my career.
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In France, everybody realized that God exists, and that he is back in the French international team. God is back, there is little left to say.
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Zidane is the master. Over the past 10 years, there’s been no-one like him, he has been the best player in the world.
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There was huge pressure, especially before the big games. Not many people believed in us, but we believed in ourselves. We wanted to do something good and we did.
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Everything Iniesta does impresses me. He could even play as goalkeeper. He’s magical.
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To be recognised by a whole country is incredible. This is massive.
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The door can never be closed for good to any player.
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Sometimes I don’t know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.
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We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.
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It’s hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up.
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
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Music was important. Football was the easy part.
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You rarely come across the complete footballer, but Scholes is as close to it as you can get. One of my regrets is that the opportunity to play alongside him never presented itself during my career.
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Every day I think about where I come from and I am still proud to be who I am: first, a Kabyle from La Castellane, then an Algerian from Marseille, and then a Frenchman.
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It’s the first time it’s happened to me and maybe the last. It’s a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can’t remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.
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My memories of events and games are fragmented.
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