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To be the England manager you must win every game, not do anything in your private life and hopefully not earn too much money!
Sven-Goran Eriksson / Soccer Player
Games
Hopefully Not
Winning
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Over time I realised that the most important thing is not the system but the players you have. Then you make a system for them.
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Realised
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If my style is typically Swedish, I don't know. But I never shouted in all my life at players and I never did it at my children.
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Swedish
All My Life
Life My Life Children
Life Children My Life
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No-one wants to finish a job badly. If you know that you are going to finish your job in six months, then you want to finish well.
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Badly
No-One
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My worst moment was in 2006, in Germany, without any doubt! The defeat in the knockout phase of the World Cup 2006 against Portugal.
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Defeat
Germany
Portugal
World Cup
Phase
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Gerrard is quiet; if he speaks people listen. If he has something to say, it's important and clever. He's a hard worker, disciplined.
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Clever
Hard Worker
Worker
Disciplined
Speaks
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My parents would make the journey across the border to Norway to buy butter and flour, staples that were cheaper there than in Sweden.
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Cheaper
Flour
Norway
Sweden
Border
Butter
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You know if you go far in the World Cup you are away for almost two months and I think it's against human nature, not to have families there.
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Human Nature
World Cup
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Without big money you can't stay at the top. Maybe you can reach it for one year but you can't if you don't have money to buy important players.
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Big Money
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Many clubs use sports psychologists today. But you have to work with a mental coach for months. You can't just start when you are in the World Cup.
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World Cup
Psychologists
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England has always been famous for great goalkeepers, before I came. We had good goalkeepers, but we didn't have the big world-class 'keeper, maybe.
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World Class
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I always thought I did a good job with England. But people at the time didn't think so. They had had enough of the Swedish guy only making the quarter-finals.
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Good Job
Had Enough
Swedish
Time Good People
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If I am going to write a book, which I have done, I think we have to get it right - whatever has been written about me, about football, about my private life.
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Private Life
Life Football I Am
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In Italy, so long as you are not criminal, they couldn't care less about your private life. It's when you lose a football match that they criticise you - a lot.
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Football Match
Private Life
Criminal
Italy
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If you're manager, you're always responsible for the good times and the bad times. Every time you don't win a game you think if you could have done it another way.
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Another Way
Bad Times
Good Times
Time Good Done
Time Good Game
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I would like to return to the Premier League but I think if you put that question to more or less every manager in the world, then they would like to do it as well.
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Premier League
More Or Less
Premier
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I loved managing England more than anything but there were times during those five years when I thought, 'Why did I leave Italy?' because you are criticised so much.
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Italy
More Than Anything
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The big question for me is - are the players happy? Because in my mind it is all about building the right relationship with your players and creating the right atmosphere.
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Atmosphere
Big Question
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You look at the way some of the big English players in the past, like Rooney and David Beckham, have been criticised and you have to ask: 'What do you want these players to be?'
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Beckham
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From 1997 I was at Lazio for three and a half years and they were lucky times - a beautiful time. The chairman did almost everything I asked. We won seven trophies and were excellent.
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Chairman
Trophies
Almost Everything
Half Years
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I had a lot of respect for Ferguson. How could you not? He had built so many great teams throughout the years and I appreciated that his teams always tried to play attacking, positive football.
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Appreciated
Ferguson
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Scholes was England's best football player. He had everything except the ability to tackle without earning a yellow card. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass.
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Earning
Football Player
Yellow
Ball Player
Card
Tackle
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If you are the coach of Bayern Munich, Barcelona or Real Madrid, the chances to win something are huge. When you go to the Premier League, you have six, seven, eight teams who are fighting to win.
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Barcelona
Madrid
Munich
Premier League
Real Madrid
Chances
Premier
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Sir Alex Ferguson must be very high up on the list of greatest managers ever. Then there is Fabio Capello, and people forget how much Giovanni Trapattoni achieved at Inter and especially Juventus.
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Alex
Ferguson
Managers
Achieved
Sir
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Sometimes things go wrong in 'football. You can lose games, own-goals, you can buy the wrong players. But you do it in the right spirit and you do it honestly. That is not how it went wrong at Notts County.
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County
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The World Cup is the biggest party in football and it's a party for the world, it's incredible. It goes for a month and there is a huge amount of interest. It's the greatest thing you can do and it's beautiful.
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World Cup
Greatest Thing
Huge Amount
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I am quite sure they are a little bit angry, they want revenge. I think they've wanted that since Monday morning. They look forward to the game, they've been waiting several days now so the players will react very well.
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Morning
Monday
Revenge
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After three years with Roma, I spent two seasons at Fiorentina. I could have stayed there for longer, but they only had ambitions to be in the middle of the table - not to win anything. Their ambition was to not go down.
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Seasons
Stayed
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By April 1998, the fortunes of Lazio were on the rise as they won their first trophy in 24 years. Meanwhile, my salary of around £400,000 basically tripled overnight when TV companies started paying for rights to broadcast games.
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April
Salary
Broadcast
Fortunes
Meanwhile
Overnight
Trophy
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China, if they decide to do something, they do it. Not only in football but whatever it is. If you think about the billion population, there must be Messis or Ronaldos out there. There must be many talented football players out there.
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Billion
Football Players
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My role as Manchester City manager was different to being manager of clubs in other countries. You share responsibility more in other European countries. You have the last word, though, in who to buy and who plays and things like that.
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European Countries
Manchester
Other Countries
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Probably I would have got more money if I'd stayed in Italy. It was said that I took England for the money. Absolutely not. I took it because it's the biggest football job in the world, the finest job you can have. I enjoyed it every day.
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Finest
Absolutely Not
Money Football World
Italy
Stayed
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Yes, England lost to Iceland at Euro 2016 but you need to look at what Iceland had, as well as what England didn't. Maybe Iceland were not technically strong but they looked very strong together and England were not the only ones surprised by them.
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Euro
Iceland
Technically
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I'd won three cups with Lazio - then, against the odds, we won Serie A, the Italian equivalent of the Premier League. Rome went wild. Thousands of people filled the streets, and fans even jumped on my car. I became known as Il Mitico - 'the legend.'
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Cups
Filled
Odds
Premier League
Rome
Equivalent
Premier
Thousands Of People
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I would certainly never walk past a player in the corridor and not speak. Why should I do that? They have to play for you so of course I would speak to them. If you want them to do everything they can for you, then you have to treat them with respect.
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Corridor
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Sir Alex Ferguson was a genuinely nice man. We met many times and even had dinner together on a few occasions. But woe to the person who threatened or bothered Manchester United in any way. Then Ferguson would not spare his venom. I know, because he often aimed that venom at me.
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Ferguson
Manchester
Manchester United
Threatened
Venom
Woe
Genuinely
Together Man Me
Sir
Spare
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I thought I was prepared for England but I was not prepared for things outside football, my private life. I am not very proud that fans could probably name three of my former girlfriends. I don't think it damaged my football results. But my image outside football it damaged, yes.
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Former
Private Life
Life Football I Am
Damaged
Girlfriends
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If you want to keep up with the changes, then you have to watch as much football as you can. Live is the best way but also on television. All the best teams: Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and now City. What are they doing? If possible, go and see them training. You can always learn.
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Barcelona
Best Way
Madrid
Munich
Real Madrid
Best Always Football
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I met Ulrika Jonsson on December 8, 2001, at some party hosted by the Daily Express, or maybe it was the Daily Star. The FA wanted me to travel around to various newspapers to be courteous and meet the editors. I visited the News Of The World too, and met a woman with big, red hair. I didn't memorise her name.
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Courteous
December
Editors
Newspapers
Red Hair
Visited
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I must say, the standard of football we play in League Two is better than I thought. I think, if you compared it with the fourth division in other countries, such as Italy, Germany and Spain, League Two is much, much better - and that's very positive. The intensity and the tempo is as high as the Premier League.
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Fourth
Germany
Intensity
Other Countries
Premier League
Spain
Tempo
Italy
Standard
Premier
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He was magnificent; very clever with outstanding technique. He could pass the ball over five yards or fifty; he could see things to set up other people; he could shoot and he could score goals. If you gave me Paul Scholes and ten others, I would be happy. I would tell them to give him the ball and then we would have a good team.
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Clever
Giving
Team
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My second year in Rome was very good. Back then, a striker was a striker. Strikers scored goals; they didn't defend. Today this is normal, but it wasn't at that time. If you wanted to play my style of football you couldn't have old players or famous players who were unwilling to do the job both ways: attacking and also defending.
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Rome
Unwilling
Both Ways
Defending
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I think, that it's sort of a dream, for many coaches to have a long contract with African countries. The problem in Africa, they do the qualifiers with some coaches, and when the World Cup comes, they change to have bigger names. And then, they recruit a coach for two, three months and when the World Cup finish, they send him back.
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Recruit
World Cup
Change World Long
Contract
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I have a big TV screen and I sit there and watch the Premier League and I get angry sometimes - 'I'm better than that guy sitting there.' Of course, I am joking. But I analyse. I look at it technically, how they play, how they defend, how they attack, why did he change that player? That's the only way I can look at it after all these years.
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Premier League
Analyse
Technically
Joking
Premier
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When I was at Shanghai SIPG, I had the Brazilian player Hulk, who had joined for over £50 million from Zenit St Petersburg. He had no problems with life in China - his only problem was that he got injured on his debut and was out for two months after that. But I never heard him complain about life in China at all - everything else was good.
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Debut
Injured
Shanghai
Life Good Problems
Brazilian
Complain
Everything Else
Hulk
Joined
No Problems
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You don't look for jobs. You don't phone up 10 clubs and say, Here I am. You are offered the job. I was in Benfica many years ago. I was leaving the training ground and I had a car after me. It went on for 10 minutes. Anyhow, he stopped and I stopped and he said, I'm from the Italian embassy. Ah yes, and what do you want? I want your phone number because Roma wants you as a manager next season. Three months later I was sitting on the bench in Roma. I don't think the rest of working society works like football.
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Jobs
Football
Soccer
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