Quotes by Lothar Matthaus - Page 2

It is possible to stop Messi. Teams do it when he plays for Argentina. But the Barcelona Messi is different.
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Argentina
Barcelona
Messi
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Normally, the coach does not like to make changes that are not necessary - because a team has to find itself.
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Normally
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The start of Bundesliga season is always exciting, as it's a fresh start for all teams fighting for the title.
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Fighting
Fresh Start
Season
Start
Teams
Title
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When you have results, you can make a difference, and when you make a difference, you can win the Ballon d'Or.
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Make A Difference
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I've played at five World Cups, including one in the U.S. where the distances between the stadiums were also big.
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Cups
Stadiums
Distances
World Cups
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As a player, you'd rather be up against Barcelona, Real Madrid, or Bayern. Big clubs. Great atmosphere. Real excitement.
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Atmosphere
Barcelona
Clubs
Excitement
Madrid
Real Madrid
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Striker Sandro Wagner is very strong, a true No. 9, who really made his mark playing with Germany in the Confederations Cup.
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Germany
Mark
Wagner
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Mario Mandzukic works so hard for his team. He's not only a No. 9 but also runs behind the defenders and drops into midfield.
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Defenders
Mario
Drops
Midfield
Runs
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Muller is a winner for Germany and expects to score big goals in big games, especially with his late runs from behind the striker.
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Germany
Score
Expects
Runs
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I have always loved football! Of course, you have sometimes difficult times with injuries, defeats, etc., but this is part of the sport.
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Difficult Times
Etc
Defeats
Injuries
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Both Luka Modric and Ivan Rakitic are classy players, top midfielders. They play for Real Madrid and Barcelona. That tells you everything.
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Barcelona
Madrid
Real Madrid
Classy
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To speak of Mexico '86, I can make it short and speak only of Maradona. I never saw a player who dominated a World Cup like he did in '86.
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Mexico
World Cup
Dominated
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Pep is not the best coach in the world. I prefer Mourinho. He is the No.1, because Mourinho is more transparent and more direct than Guardiola.
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Pep
Transparent
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Niko Kovac had to understand the system inside Bayern, to realise that this is a very different club to Eintracht Frankfurt, where he was before.
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Realise
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Maradona, yes! Diego was very fast, with good skills and brilliant dribbling. Many players are fast but cannot control the ball, but he was amazing.
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Amazing
Brilliant
Skills
Ball
Diego
Fast
Yes
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I always say that if you stay with a good coach, the relationship between him and his team becomes like a family: he becomes a father with his children.
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Coach
Family Good Relationship
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When I was a player, and since then, we have never been so snobbish as to go into a tournament saying, 'We will win this World Cup.' We aren't like that.
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World Cup
World Win Will
Tournament
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When a game runs out of your hands is when you look for someone like Pogba to hold the team together and give them rhythm, but I feel he only plays for himself.
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Rhythm
Runs
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Mexico and Italy are countries where you can almost taste the atmosphere from the teeming stands when you're on the field, and that's a real motivation for a player.
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Atmosphere
Mexico
Italy
Stands
Teeming
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Asian players have more in common with the Bundesliga than with Italian or Spanish leagues because they are wedded to the team cause, are hard-working and disciplined.
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More Because Than
Disciplined
Hard-Working
Leagues
Spanish
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Important in a big tournament is how you start. With a great match at the start, you can distance yourself from the unrest from outside. And it increases the respect among opponents.
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Distance
Opponents
Unrest
Increases
Tournament
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Footballers have to help each other out. Everybody must give his best in pursuit of common goals - not individual ones. This has been the German approach through our football history.
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Pursuit
Best History Football
Footballers
German
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Soccer is the main sport in Mexico; it's very important for the Mexican people. It's their passion - it's their religion - and Mexican football was always one of the best in the world.
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Mexican
Mexico
Passion
Soccer
Sport
Main
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I often have the feeling that Ozil does not feel comfortable in the Germany jersey, that he is not free, almost as if he does not want to play at all. There is no heart, no joy, no passion.
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Germany
Jersey
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I had very good players around me in the team, like in the German national team. Andreas Brehme was one of my best partners in the team because he had good eyes; he could always hit the best ball.
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National Team
Partners
German
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One day I'd like to show what I can do as a coach in Germany. But I won't bend over backwards for a job in the Bundesliga and lock myself in my house for 24 hours just to win other people's approval.
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Approval
Backwards
Germany
Myself Day People
Bend
Lock
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Bayern fulfilled every wish, no matter what Guardiola wanted: the players, the coaches, and even the doctors. He caused much disturbance off the field. But he is one of the best coaches on the planet.
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Coaches
Disturbance
Doctors
Fulfilled
Caused
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Raheem Sterling is a danger to every defence because of his pace and technique. If you let him go one against one, you are in trouble. He has that speed with the ball at his feet to make a difference.
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Danger
Defence
Pace
Speed
Sterling
Technique
Make A Difference
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When I'm with friends, when I have time, I like to play soccer, and I think it's still my passion, still my love. I'm not crazy to do it every day, but sometimes when I see the ball, I like to kick the ball.
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Soccer
Love Time Passion
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I like football. It's fun winning the ball from someone. It's fun shooting at goal. It's fun hitting a ball over 60 metres that arrives. It's like in golf: if you hit a ball, and it flies and flies and flies, you enjoy it.
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Hitting
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Neymar doesn't need to act - he's an excellent player, and he has everything a high-level player needs. He's one of the top five players in the world; why does he need to act? It doesn't bring him sympathy, and it's not good for him.
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Sympathy
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Nobody has a better product than the German Bundesliga. We have the most spectators in the stadiums. We have the best stadiums. We have the most goals. We have very good teams. We have high-level international players with big names.
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Spectators
Stadiums
German
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Bundesliga matches are always exciting - with low ticket prices, standing terraces means all matches are played before the highest average attendances of any professional football league and creates a thrilling and breathtaking atmosphere.
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Atmosphere
Breathtaking
Thrilling
Creates
Matches
Prices
Professional Football
Ticket
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Klopp knows how to motivate players. He speaks to them individually, gets their confidence up, makes them believe and grow in quality. He makes his players feel happy. And they then take that happiness onto the field. He builds that into them.
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Builds
Individually
Motivate
Onto
Speaks
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I was certainly no Maradona. I was a very fast player. When I saw a space, I used it. When I went past somebody, he didn't catch up with me again. I was a player who came with a run-up. What Maradona could see in a small space, I saw over long distances.
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Space
Past Me Long
Again
Came
Catch
Certainly
Distances
Fast
Small
Saw
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In Germany, we laugh at it. Mourinho just selects a topic to moan about - transfers, team preparation, a rival coach. But Pep Guardiola wants it all to be about the performance of his team. He's obsessed by possession, like at Bayern Munich, and will not compromise on that at Manchester City.
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Compromise
Germany
Manchester
Obsessed
Pep
Possession
Preparation
Coach
Laugh
Performance
Moan
Rival
Topic
Transfer
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Sancho is a player who has everything. He has fantastic speed, great technique, a good eye for his colleagues, and that key pass. Everything he does, he pulls off at high speed at the right moment. For me, he is a perfect player. The ability he has is instinctive, natural. You cannot teach that brilliance.
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Brilliance
Colleagues
Right Moment
Speed
Technique
Good Great Moment
Instinctive
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I played the 1980 UEFA Cup final for Borussia Monchengladbach against Eintracht Frankfurt, who had the legendary South Korean Cha Bum-kun as their forward. He was the face of Frankfurt then. He had pace, great technique, was a great dribbler, and scored goals. And most importantly, he was the ultimate team man.
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Legendary
Pace
Technique
Importantly
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All my family worked for Puma. My mother worked there, and my father was the guy that opened and closed up in the evening. We lived in the neighbouring building - just a couple of steps, and I would be in the Puma factory. All 300 people that worked there knew me; it was my adventure playground. I knew everything, even how to make a shoe sole.
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Adventure
Evening
Sole
Steps
Family Me Father
Closed
Factory
Opened
Playground
Shoe
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