Eniola Aluko Quotes

One of my friends, Bruno Andrade, was so quick, he just used to knock the ball past whoever he was playing against, and I thought, 'Why can't I do that?' Until then, I would try to dribble and maybe try a stepover, but Andre would just knock it then - beep, beep - and he was so fast, he would get there first.

You don't have to commit a lot of fouls, especially if you are 1-0 down. If you are 1-0 down, then don't commit 10 fouls in the next ten minutes.

I'm very good at drawing fouls.

I see a lot of fouls on Messi, and he's not the type to overreact.

Jorginho is really suitable to the way I like to play. He is a player that has many good sides to him. He wants to work hard, and he's very fast in moving the ball, which is important for us, although there is also Cesc Fabregas, who has the same potential as Jorginho.

Centre-backs with good technique can move the ball forward, even when under pressure.

If teams play Bayern, they bring another attitude to the pitch than if they play teams who are not Bayern.

I do not know if we play the most beautiful or attractive football, but we certainly play more intelligently, more functionally and more precisely than anyone else.

The most important thing in Guardiola's theory is to play football, and this always stays the same. The basic idea is always the same, but different opponents offer different space which you can use to play in.

No-huddle is something that I'm very comfortable with.

Messi can get around his opponent in just a square meter. Ronaldo needs more space.

I always felt before Paul Brown, coaches just rolled the ball out onto the field.

When a team plays you by pressing so high, if you do not take advantage, they grow in their field, with their atmosphere and the goals they are making.

As a striker, your job is mostly to forget. When you have someone like Vidic marking you, and it's misery for 89 minutes, all you have to do is forget everything. Forget the 89 minutes. Because in the 90th minute, you might finally get your chance. I have been pretty good at this in my career.

Football is a really simple game, and the most important thing, in any formation, is that the players do their jobs, not the formation which they play in.

Honestly, I always told my coaches my whole career - we'll practice two-minute drills in practice, like, once a week and everything - I'm just like, 'Those are my favorite time of football.' I'm out there in total control, just getting everything lined up, getting everybody on the same page, and obviously, usually it's pass after pass after pass.

Sarri taught me football. He is a coach I really like, well-prepared and even scientific in the way he analyses games.

I try to play in one way all my career and here, with high pressing, but it is different in England. Many times the ball is more in the air than the grass, and I have to adapt.

I think you have to play your own game and sometimes people don't realise that the play-maker runs the most kilometres on the pitch!

As we say in Portugal, they brought the bus and they left the bus in front of the goal.

At first I didn't think I was going to fit into Barcelona's way of playing. There was a lot of tiki-taka and I was thinking that without a lot of space to play in, I'd find it more difficult. I worried about that.

They (Leeds United) used to be a bit like Arsenal, winning by one goal to nil or even less.

When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average ... So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you're a good player or not.

If you have the ball, you must make the field as big as possible, and if you don't have the ball, you must make it as small as possible.

Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.