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To be persistent and to have courage is important to get through difficult times and to achieve what you want to achieve.
Andre Villas-Boas / Football Manager
Courage
Achieve
Difficult Times
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I want to play the Champions League with Marseille, but I want to know how much we are economically dependent on our project.
Andre Villas-Boas / Football Manager
Champions League
Dependent
Champions
Economically
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Football isn't won by one person but by collective competence. It is the quality of the players and the structure of the club.
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Competence
Collective
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Pep was always an inspiration to me when I left Inter because of his methodology, and the way he plays such fantastic football.
Andre Villas-Boas / Football Manager
Methodology
Pep
Football Me Way
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I told players that when we score a goal, the bench lives through the same emotions and we celebrate with them, with the same desire.
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Celebrate
Bench
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If you are a dictator of choices, players won't be able to explore their possibilities to the full. You have to be able to free them.
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Dictator
Possibilities
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I think sometimes drive and ambition of individuals should not be confused as arrogance, and sometimes Cristiano gets that tag on him.
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Arrogance
Confused
Tag
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I strongly believe that'players have to express themselves to their full potential, they must be able to make choices during the game.
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Full Potential
Strongly
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I learned to be more flexible when I went from Chelsea to Tottenham. I always thought more in the long run without thinking in the short term.
Andre Villas-Boas / Football Manager
Chelsea
Flexible
Term
Long Run
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The Chelsea experience was too much too soon. I wasn't flexible as a manager at that time. I was communicative, but I wasn't flexible in my approach.
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Chelsea
Flexible
Communicative
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My passion for football makes me live it very intensively over 11 months and dedicate myself to that, but I think life allows you to enjoy other things.
Andre Villas-Boas / Football Manager
Life Myself Football
Dedicate
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The Premier League is a circus, it's constantly changing. It's full of emotion, ups and downs, unpredictability and this makes it the spectacle that it is.
Andre Villas-Boas / Football Manager
Circus
Emotion
League
Premier League
Unpredictability
Constantly
Changing
Downs
Premier
Spectacle
Ups And Downs
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It is about the players that take us to success. When they feel your convictions you can sell them your ideas a bit better and take them to important results.
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Convictions
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The objective is the group performance, but every single individual requires a different response from a manager - you can't be the same person to each player.
Andre Villas-Boas / Football Manager
Response
Objective
Single Individual
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Regarding why I left Inter, it was because I wanted the extra edge to fulfil my ambitions as a professional coach, so I took the risk to find my own job at Academica.
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Edge
Extra
Fulfil
Regarding
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You always have to be very, very careful with statistics. It doesn't mean that we negate them completely; we just don't use them to the extent that people might think.
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Statistics
Extent
People Always Mean
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What we have been doing at Tottenham with my staff is a reaction to the mistakes we made at Chelsea. We did not do everything wrong there, but we could have done better.
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Chelsea
Staff
Reaction
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Returning to England is definitely not in my plans. I had talks with Liverpool, a club I admire a lot, but like I said it's not in my plans, although life takes many turns.
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Liverpool
Plans
Returning
Talks
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In football and paper things look different but surprises happen, it's why I don't believe in having a favorites role in every game we play because the unpredictable can happen.
Andre Villas-Boas / Football Manager
Favorites
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I just want to make my players give their most. I give them room to express themselves because that's how they develop. I promote their talent and let them make their own decisions.
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Promote
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I think, in the Premier League we have a situation where contacts happen more often than in Europe and the direction of the attack changes more frequently from one team to the other.
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Premier League
Contacts
Frequently
Premier
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I am linked with Jose because we worked together, but I don't go out of my way to talk about it. We are 'different people, have 'different 'personalities and different views on the game.
Andre Villas-Boas / Football Manager
Linked
Views
Different People
Different Personalities
Personalities
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Managers have different leadership styles and ways to go about their business. But in the end it doesn't matter if the manager is old-fashioned, old school or always looking towards the future.
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Managers
In The End
Styles
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The Premier League is guided by this dynamic: ball lost - ball recovered - ball lost again. That makes matches unpredictable, teams must be objective and behave like that because that's what excites fans.
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Behave
Premier League
Dynamic
Guided
Excites
Matches
Objective
Premier
Recovered
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I spent seven years with Jose and we were part of a very good technical staff. We went to top class clubs at Porto, Chelsea and Inter Milan and worked with top players who gave us such a tremendous volume of success.
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Chelsea
Clubs
Milan
Staff
Volume
Tremendous
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Tottenham I really enjoyed the first year, and by the time I left we had almost as many points as in the season before when we broke the points record. But these are things that people don't evaluate, only I know about.
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Broke
Evaluate
Time People Know
By The Time
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I don't see a lack of quality in Bundesliga. It's competitive and has good players. I am a huge fan of Thomas Muller in particular. He sums up German players. He's disciplined, versatile and always dangerous in front of the goal.
Andre Villas-Boas / Football Manager
Versatile
Good Always I Am
German
Disciplined
Huge Fan
Sums
Thomas
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Tottenham set a points and victories record in my first season, missed out on the Champions League by one point and had a great run in the Europa League. In the second season, at the time I left we had more points than in the previous campaign.
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Champions League
Time Great More
Champions
Missed
Previous
Victories
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That image is now associated with the Portuguese coaches: the ability to adapt, to arrive and win, to assemble good teams and good structures is undoubtedly one of our brands and I think that's the main fact for which we are most respected around the world.
Andre Villas-Boas / Football Manager
Brands
Portuguese
Adapt
Good World Win
Arrive
Assemble
Associated
Undoubtedly
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In my formative moments, working with Jose was the best time of my life. I was able to learn many things and working with him takes you to another level. You fall in love with him and he becomes your idol. I wanted to be like him, know everything that he knew and absorb all the information he was giving. Then you fall on the wrong side of Jose.
Andre Villas-Boas / Football Manager
Life Love Best
Life Love Time
Absorb
Best Time
Formative
Wrong Side
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