Frank Rijkaard Quotes

Scottish football doesn't suit me perfectly, how I want to play football.

In Spain, you get seven clear chances a game to receive the ball and shoot. In Italy, you get very few clear balls, and you have to fight everyone to score; that makes you improve and develop.

Someone said that my coaching is a combination of Milan's defensive discipline and the Dutch propensity for attacking football, and I think that is a fair description.

Anyone who wants to be a centre-half would have to say that John Terry is a role model. Every centre-half in the game would agree with that. It is the way he leads the team and the way he reads the game.

Keeping up your concentration is one of the hardest tasks when you're a centre-back because a team like Bayern tend to dominate and can give you sense of false security.

When I don't have control of the ball, what do I do? I press to get it back. It's a way of defending. But more important is that I like to have the ball. That's why I believe in individual coaching sessions to prepare players properly.

Sometimes you can get sloppy and control the ball right at your feet, and that gives the defenders a chance.

The style is the same at all levels, which facilitates things: bring the ball out from the back, keep possession, work gaps to create chances. It's like that from the Under-15s all the way through. That's the Spanish way, and it has triumphed.

For me, playing simply is dribbling. For me, playing one or two touches is harder. Playing simply is the most difficult thing.

In England and Germany, perhaps, there is more of a focus on the physical side of the game, in breaking down the opposition's play, especially against the lower placed sides.

In every country, you play a different style of football. Sometimes if it's really tactical, like it is in Spain, it seems like it slows down the tempo, but it's not really the case.

I know if I'm playing centre-back, there are certain places where you don't give your full-back the ball - because I've been the full-back!

Cruyff defined a philosophy and a style of how we had to play: positional play, type of players, the profile of the coaches, even.

When there's pressure on the ball, you can go man-to-man on your striker; you've got the advantage because the ball pressure means it'll be a difficult pass to play.

Ibrahimovic is a very intelligent player and there are very few strikers like him in world football.

I can play as a No. 8, a No. 10, out wide. Wherever I play, I'll be happy, I'm sure.

I received a lot of criticism maybe because in England they are not accustomed to seeing a playmaker with my skills. Because I'm not a physical player but I think more about playing the ball.

Attacking is the tough part in football; defending is relatively easy.

In football, there has always been this idea of having a left-footer and a right-footer in central defence.

Manchester United are always a team that try to play football, try to play football from the back.

We know it's impossible sometimes to have good defending against Cristiano Ronaldo but we want to keep the ball, with good possession, as then he can do nothing in attack.

Harry Kane is a very complicated player to stop.

My style suits Barcelona's style of play.

Pochettino likes to play from the back, with the buildup, have the ball.

Jorginho is not a physical player, he is a technical player, but the most important quality is that he is very quick in the mind. He has the ability to move the ball very quickIy.