Franck Ribery Quotes

Sure it's a dream to coach Napoli as well as the national team.

When I finish playing football, I would like to work with kids and sleep!

It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.

I love to have my football camps. I love being a part of that.

I began training the young players at Nova Iguacu and at Boavista, and I enjoyed it. I had always wanted to be a coach, and this accelerated the process.

I'd been coaching since the end of my playing career, first with England's Under 21s, then Manchester United, and finally, in Spain with Valencia.

I know so many players who say they wouldn't entertain coaching, until they retire that is, and then they want to take their coaching badges. I suspect this might happen with David Beckham.

I started out wanting to coach football.

To work with the kids and help them come through from the Academy to the first team would be brilliant.

I would love to have a career like Zinedine Zidane. He stopped playing, took some time, realised he liked coaching, and started working in the youth academy. I could follow a similar path.

I have a business in North Carolina but am open to coaching or broadcasting as well. I've got four years on my contract and want to play as long as I can with my knees, but I'll let God take care of that.

When I came back to England after my stint with Derby in 1995, I really wanted more time to study coaching.

I've started the coaching badges. I did some at Aston Villa, but things got in the way.'

I think the 20-year-old me from that time, if I could have been managed under Jurgen Klopp, I'd have benefitted.

Rebuilding has always been one of my specialities from the time I started with young players at Cagliari.

For sure, I would like to continue my life with the strings of football by being a coach, manager - I don't know. But one thing is clear: I will continue doing something related to football.

I was fortunate to play under Thomas Schaaf at Bremen. And I played for Arsene Wenger. So I always felt, let's say, more responsible than others towards the manager and his succession.

I've been a coach for 30 years and I've been around football my entire life.

Coaching is something I really would do. A lot of people don't think I'm serious about it. I like working with the kids. When you work with the guys one-on-one and get them to understand it's a little bit better. That's the way I was taught by Tim Grgurich. That's how he taught us.

I think that everyone expects Xavi to be a coach, and he has the profile to be at Barcelona or wherever he is.

I am absolutely happy to train Real Madrid. I have a wonderful challenge.

Once that was over, I knew that my ties to a football organization would be over because I never wanted to coach or be in the front office.

I have played a lot games, worked with a lot of these players and learnt an awful lot. I've got the knowledge and leadership qualities. So, its normal that under these circumstances that I got into coaching. I'm learning an awful lot.

Every day, you get to train with players like Diego Costa, and Eden Hazard is another lesson for you.

I am much more a pitch manager than a general manager. I am one of the few managers who is bored by the transfer market. Our task is growing the players that we have.