Jay-Jay Okocha Quotes

Brazil is a country I hold very dearly. I've got followers there who I've been interacting with for years, as well as fellow artists like Ivete Sangalo, and it also has huge figures like Pele. I'd love to go to that World Cup - I'm not sure in what capacity, but I'll definitely be there. I know that nobody wants to miss it, least of all me.

The first World Cup I followed was Sweden 1958. I watched the games on TV. Brazil won that World Cup by defeating Sweden 5-2 in the Final and Pele scored twice.

If Messi were Brazilian, he would be a world champion.

The most important thing is qualifying for the World Cup.

We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.

It was my proudest moment as a manager when England drew 0-0 with Italy in Rome to qualify for the World Cup finals. Fifteen years later, the stakes are equally high for both countries as they go head-to-head for a semi-final place at the European Championship.

Brazil's always had great players, both at home and abroad, but we need to put all that talent together and mould a team out of it.

Every team going to Brazil 2014 will be there to win, and it's going to be a fiercely contested World Cup.

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

It would be fantastic to play against Germany and Brazil.

I got to be around an England team at a World Cup in Brazil, and that was an amazing experience.

A World Cup in Brazil is the greatest event in which a footballer can play.

When I was a kid, I dreamed of wearing the Selecao shirt in a World Cup.

Would I have preferred not to play in a home World Cup for Brazil, a privilege that most people in this world can only dream of? Not a chance.

Playing in the Copa America would be an important thing for me, just like the Olympics, because Brazil has never won the gold medal there.

For Brazil, the World Cup really starts in the knockout rounds.

After World Cup 2010 in South Africa I will no longer play for la Nazionale.

There's never a lot of Brazillian football played in these games.

I prefer that Argentina wins the World Cup. Messi deserves it for all he has done in football. He's my friend, I wish him the best

A World Cup without Zlatan is not worth watching.

I think that France, Germany, Spain, Holland and England will join Brazil in the semi-finals.

I've signed a contract with the Dutch national team until 2006. So I can win the World Cup not once but twice.

My father loved European football; he also loved the Brazilian team. His own dad loved the Brazilian team.

It cannot be a coincidence that a European team couldn't win a World Cup held in South America.

Senegal is a great football country.