A football team represents a way of being, a culture.
It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.
The street is the best way to become a good footballer.
In any case, you can't turn back the clock.
For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time.
I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all.
Footballing qualities can be developed, but Stoichkov is a player with character and inborn talent. I've seen him produce fantastic plays even from impossible situations... I couldn't believe it, when I heard that I used to be his idol.
I began by playing for the biggest club in the Lorraine region, went on to the biggest club in France and ended up with the biggest in the world.
I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.
What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange.
If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three.
We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side.
What differences were there between Maradona and Platini?
Whenever I was on the pitch, I always tried to win.
The most skillful is Thierry Henry, he has impressed me the most. He's played a great tournament(Euro '00). He has the pace of Anelka, and the sense of Trezeguet. He's got something that no French player has ever had. He can do everything: from scoring goals, to giving assists, crossing and creating space for other players, and he fights for every ball. I've never see a player in France like him
I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals.
I'm well-educated person. I don't reurn the gift
The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.
Messi has all the conditions to be the best, but first he has to beat Maradona, Romario and then eventually Pele.
Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw.
You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days.
Messi is the great player of this generation, like there were great players in other generations.
Beckham in Paris will certainly be good for shopping. I love this player but he is not the footballer he was. And if he comes to Paris now it will be to do something other than football.
At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.
At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home.
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