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Manchester United breathes football.
Robin Van Persie / Soccer Player
Manchester
Manchester United
Breathes
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If you don't know something, just go and ask.
Robin Van Persie / Soccer Player
Ask
Just
Go
Something
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I want to play as long as possible at the highest level.
Robin Van Persie / Soccer Player
Highest Level
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I'm home. I hope the Manchester United fans forgive me for being late.
Robin Van Persie / Soccer Player
Home
Forgive Me
Forgiving
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I highly appreciate the work of Ed Woodward, the CEO of Manchester United.
Robin Van Persie / Soccer Player
Appreciate
Ceo
Manchester
Manchester United
Woodward
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I took the No. 20 shirt because I'm here to win The 20th title with United.
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Shirts
Titles
Winning
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It was five, but it could have been six, seven or eight goals, in my opinion.
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Eight
Goal
Six
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Of course I love silverware in my football career. But sometimes you can't rush from A to Z.
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Rush
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Van Gaal gave me all the confidence I could ask for. He made me striker, my favorite position.
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Van
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Arsenal are a great club, but after eight years, sometimes you feel that you need a new challenge.
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Arsenal
New Challenge
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Every big player who leaves Arsenal is a massive loss. But no player here is bigger than the club.
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Arsenal
Loss
Massive
Leaves
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I've always said that I want to win as many trophies as possible in my career, but not at any price.
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Trophies
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When I came to Arsenal years ago, I saw things from Dennis Bergkamp and Thierry Henry I'd never seen before.
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Arsenal
Henry
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Playing for a Champions League place is not enough. It is not my target, but it is a target we have to take.
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Champions League
Target
Champions
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The little boy inside me was screaming 'Manchester United'. United breathes football... the perfect match for me.
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Boys
Football
Perfect
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It was a crazy game. We could have scored five...oh right, we did score five, but we could have scored six, seven or eight.
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Crazy
Eight
Games
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I live on having a challenge when the line is really thin. I like it the most when you have no clue what is going to happen.
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Clue
Challenge
No Clue
Thin
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You can count my interviews this season on one hand, so maybe when I do speak, people want to turn it into something sensational.
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Sensational
Count
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At home in Manchester, I have a recreation room just like I had in London, with all kinds of jerseys on the wall. In the middle, there's a table to play tennis.
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Manchester
Recreation
Tennis
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Football has always been my great love. I slept with a ball - really! Even when I started going out with Bouchra - ouha! She must have thought, 'What's this...?'
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Great Love
Love Great Football
Slept
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I wasn't artistic in drawing or painting, but I think I am artistic in sport. I think I'm always looking for the ultimate, the maximum. It's a challenge that excites me.
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Drawing
Maximum
Ultimate
Always Me I Am
Excites
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Over the last few years, I've started to look more closely at the way coaches work to learn from them - not just here at the club but with the international team as well.
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Coaches
Work Look Way
Closely
Last Few Years
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Manchester United breathe football. When I have to make hard decisions, I always listen to little boy inside me and what he wants. That little boy was screaming for United.
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Boys
Decision
Football
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There is no doubt I'm learning new things and progressing with David Moyes. The sessions we have on the training ground are fantastic, and I'm learning a lot from them every day.
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New Things
No Doubt
Learning Day New
David
Progressing
Training Ground
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It's my dream and I see no point in speaking about other teams when I have these dreams. I think other people know that about me; I'm just hungry to win with Arsenal and that's it.
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Dream
Team
Winning
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Everyone knows me by now. I love football. I am quite principled in that perspective. It is always difficult to find the perfect match, but I do feel this is the perfect match for me.
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Principled
Love Football I Am
Match
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When I look at a football pitch, I suppose, yes, I see it as my canvas. I see solutions, possibilities, the space to express myself. I am always looking for ways to be creative, to gain an edge.
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Canvas
Solutions
Space Myself Always
Pitch
Edge
Gain
Suppose
Possibilities
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Great players must always produce and at any time or in any game. Give them a ball and a pitch, and they will show what they've got. That relaxed, calm spirit you don't really have when you are young.
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Calm
Relaxed
Time Great Always
Time Great Game
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Dennis Bergkamp is, in my eyes, still 'The Master'. The fact that he never won the Champions League, the European Championship, or the World Cup does not take anything away from his greatness as a player.
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Champions League
Greatness
World Cup
Champions
Cup
Master
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I always want to win, and it was time to win some club prizes, some titles. I never would have gone for the money, but wanted the chance to get a bit further in my career. And it turned out to be the right decision.
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Right Decision
Titles
Further
Prizes
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Now I know a lot about my body, like how important it is to eat well, as it makes you stronger in the end and helps prevent injuries. Or when you train, do you just start to shoot, or do you have a good warm-up first?
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Stronger
Helps
Shoot
In The End
Injuries
Prevent
Warm-Up
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When friends wanted to go to the centre of town, they took a bus or tram. I took the ball and went running after them. School was hell because I had to put the ball on the ground. Outside, I was free, playing the ball.
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Centre
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I look at the occasion, and this was one of the biggest so far in my career. It was a bit of a gamble, but I spotted Casillas off his line before the cross came in. It was a header, but a lobbed header -- a great goal.
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Careers
Goal
Looks
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My fellow players are sometimes occupying the spaces I want to play in. That forces me to adjust my runs, based on the position of my fellow players. Unfortunately, they're often playing in my zones. I think that's a shame
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Running
Football
Player
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I've worked with some brilliant coaches, and I've taken a real interest in all the methods they use and the choices they make. And I can tell you that Moyes's sessions and the things he says in his team meetings are spot on.
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Brilliant
Coaches
Spot
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I think Messi is an absolute giant in the game. Not so much because of his dribbles and actions. That's why most people rate him. But I think, differently from others, that he is phenomenal in his teamplay and combination play.
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Combination
Messi
Phenomenal
Rate
Absolute
Actions
Giant
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It's an honour to sign for Manchester United. I am looking forward to following in the footsteps of so many great strikers, bringing my experience and playing my part to help the team compete for the biggest trophies in the game.
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Following
Footsteps
Honour
Looking Forward
Manchester
Manchester United
Trophies
Bringing
Compete
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Midfielders, on average, get somewhere between half a second and a second to think before they have to move the ball on. For strikers, however, it is significantly less: between 0.1 and 0.2 of a second before a defender is on them.
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Average
Defender
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I don't mind if my performances get dissected and people criticise what I've done on the pitch. They can talk about my game 24/7 for all I care. And a lot of those opinions and criticisms may actually be right. So I don't mind that.
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Care
Criticise
Talk
Actually
Game
Criticisms
Dissected
Mind Care People
Performance
Opinions
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Arsenal fans are real lovers of the game. They don't miss anything in the stadium and are there for the team and the individual players. I have to admit I love banners like 'We don't need Batman, we've got Robin' and stuff like that.
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Arsenal
Banner
Fans
Lovers
Admit
Miss
Batman
Love Game Fans
Robin
Stadium
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I don't see things the way my parents do. They can look at a tree and see something amazing, whereas I just see a tree. That's not to say I don't appreciate its beauty. When I watch the sea in somewhere like Sardinia, I see the beauty in that.
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Sea
Tree
Whereas
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When I was five, I joined a club, 'Excelsior', the club of Kralingen, in the first division. I was always training. On a free afternoon, I did individual work with Aad Putters, my youth trainer. Not with the idea growing to be a star, but for fun.
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Afternoon
Division
Joined
Trainer
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I think my biggest strength is that I always keep doing exactly the same thing. There are forwards who go crazy with euphoria, but after a goal, I let myself fall back to the midfield, recharge. Keeping yourself cool and concentrated on your mission.
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Euphoria
Concentrated
Exactly The Same
Forwards
Mission
Midfield
Same Thing
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Everybody who comes to my home has to play at least one set against me. I beat them all. The best thing is when they want another set. People like me who can't stand not to win. I beat them again and again until they are furious, then I laugh. That's funny.
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Funny
Furious
Best Home Me
Again
At Least One
Beat
Set
Laugh
Least
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Our fellow players are sometimes occupying the spaces I want to play in. And when I see that, it makes it difficult for me to come to those spaces as well. So that forces me to adjust my runs based on the position of my fellow players. And unfortunately, they're often playing in my zones. I think that's a shame.
Robin Van Persie / Soccer Player
Shame
Zone
Me Difficult Sometimes
Adjust
Fellow
Unfortunately
Occupying
Runs
Spaces
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What I need to address are the situations when people are taking it upon themselves to think for me, make assumptions, or interpret things as if they are me. Last time I checked, my head was still attached to my body, so I'm the only one who knows exactly what I'm feeling, and that is not what I or the fans have been reading.
Robin Van Persie / Soccer Player
Last Time
Time Me Body
Assumptions
Attached
Checked
Exactly What
Interpret
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Arsenal will always come first. You name them - Henry, Vieira, Pires, Bergkamp. People saw these stars shine, and they thought: 'Is there life after Vieira, Pires or Bergkamp?'. But look at what happens here. At Arsenal, you always see young, fresh talent grow into the same role as those stars who have left. Other players have replaced them.
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Arsenal
Replaced
Shine
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