Gerardo Martino Quotes

Mano Menezes is a fantastic coach, but Scolari is a fantastic coach, too, as well as being more experienced.

I have no ambition to become Germany coach.

In July 2011, U.S. Soccer announced that they'd fired Bob Bradley and hired Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach. Jurgen had once been a world-class German striker; now he was regarded as a successful, if controversial, coach.

It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.

I always had much respect for Rudi Voller.

The horizon is a little bit blocked with Didier Deschamps as manager. I respect his choices, but the French national team doesn't make me happy any more.

I think that Thomas Tuchel has the quality to train a Bayern.

As long as Didier Deschamps is coach, I have no chance of getting back into the France team.

I think that the Bayern coach is the second hardest job in Germany after the Chancellor.

Becoming Netherlands coach could be a nice end to my career.

Tite is doing a great job for the Brazilian national team.

I would be very surprised if Phil Neville didn't go into management and possibly Johnny Heitinga, too.

I didn't know there was such a thing as professional soccer, but I knew that Brazil had a women's team that competed against other countries, and I wanted to be on that 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.

Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it.

The best managers out there at the moment are Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho but they are at other clubs - Real Madrid and Barcelona.

In the national team, the armband always goes to the player with the most caps.

I actually spoke to all the national team players who play in the Premier League, asking about what the league is like and the style of play. It's one thing watching it on the TV, but being involved in it every day is another thing.

I am enjoying my time as Barnet coach, but I think I could do it in Serie A.

It's an incredible privilege to be the England manager, but when you sit and think about the people who have got to this point before, people I hugely respect and admire... it's difficult to put it into perspective, really.

Of course you want to coach in the Bundesliga when you move into coaching.

Managers lose more than they win until they get to the big 10 clubs; then, they start winning a bit more than they lose.

I've got massive respect for Arsene Wenger for what he's done for the English game, and it would have been good to work under him, but that didn't happen.

If you lose three or four in a row, people start talking about retirement. They are not used to this sport like they are used to tennis. If you take a look at how many times Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer lost, it's all part of the game. Soccer is no different: teams go through bad times and then rise again.

I played soccer and could have probably made it to the top league.