Gervinho Quotes

My head has just been all about wanting to play regular football in the Premier League.

I would love to play in the Premier League; which player wouldn't? I am happy at AC Milan, but never say never.

I was about five or six when I went to the little foundation camps. I got into the academy when I was nine, and I've gone through every age group since and into the first team.

I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.

I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.

Even all the top players going to Europe to play helps soccer in America, as do all the MLS players like Beckham and all that, they're trying to promote it. At the end of the day it's about getting the younger generation interested at an early age so most of them will move on and play.

Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.

Not so many Armenian players are given the chance to play in the Champions League, and this is really important for me, because I want to do everything to impress the children who are watching me playing.

There are a lot of big players and a lot of big teams, but I don't know if I'll get the opportunity to play in the Premier League.

I had wanted to play for Penarol since I was a boy. When I was young, I would go to their training ground, but at 18, I left Uruguay for Argentina, and my professional career started.

You dream of your first NFL start when you're a little kid, playing football in the backyard, but until you get there, you never know what to expect.

Every kid dreams of playing in the Premier League.

The Premier League is probably the best in the world so if you have a lot of players who play well there, it's normal that they are going to grow as players.

I want to be playing in the Premier League.

I didn't dream of joining Man City as a professional one day, or representing England, because I didn't know that was even possible.

Little details about young footballers catch your eye when you have been around a big club for a long time. At first, it can be minor things, like the way certain young players stand out from the group when the academy lads cross paths with the senior team on their way to training in the morning.

Kids in Africa start kicking a ball when they are six or seven years old, if not younger. It's like baseball, basketball and football in America. If you're talented, people will find you. That's what happened with soccer. The number of academies has grown rapidly, and people are really into it.

It's been a big flaw of ours in the soccer department that a lot of our best athletes go and play other sports. But I think young players have seen me, and others, go over to Europe and play in some of the best leagues - and MLS is improving so much, too.

I think it will be good to be in Columbus and get pushed there and then go overseas. If there is a loan, it will be good to get comfortable and get games and get used to the pace of European soccer.

I can look forward to that. Getting back over to Europe and playing at a little bit higher level, then hopefully becoming a leader for the national team.

I've dreamed of playing in the Premier League since I was a young boy.

When I left the U.S., I sort of left that frustration and that pressure to make the national team behind me.

Aston Villa were signing this player and that player, and I was thinking this is my chance to get to the Premier League. I was a little bit over-eager to join them.

I began my journey as a 16-year-old boy at the Arsenal's academy, trying to one day become a first team player, going out for evening runs in East Barnet with Jack Wilshere.

Germany is where I had to become a true professional. They play in big games when they are young. We could model some of our soccer system after what they do.