Timothy F. Cahill Quotes

It's disappointing to see how football, the world's No. 1 sport, is not No. 1 when it comes to development. It seems to me that a wealth of practical football knowledge is being squandered.

Germany, when you're a young player, is the best. There are lots of young talents here, and people have faith in them.

I played for Barcelona, for Ajax, where it's important to develop and integrate young talent.

For the fans, for the club, for the young players, I want to show there is a pathway at Fulham for young players to go through in the first team.

If I had the opportunity, I will ask every Nigerian kid to start his career in Germany. The structure they have in the Bundesliga is far from what is obtainable in other leagues.

In India, the key is to start at the base and start very young. We need professionally trained talent, talent that wants to make football their career, and people must see football as a strong professional career option.

We have to let them grow, because young players can always improve. That goes for Jack Wilshere, too.

I'm passionate about making this country and the youth passionate about football.

Jack Wilshere is a prime example of how things work. He went to Bolton and did really well, then he went back to Arsenal and really kicked on. It is something quite a few of the young boys look at and think, 'If he can do it, so can we.'

I wish I could help in a more substantial way, the football in India in a more global, national way.

I'd always thought Australia was a rugby country, but football is really developing here, and Juve are extremely popular.

I'm sorry for Italian football; there's no desire to improve Italian football.

My dream is to get the young people off the streets, to make it possible for them to play football in the stadium instead.

Besides my father, who used to be a footballer at the local level, it is Messi for whom I started to play football.

When I first arrived at Napoli, I was the ball boy, which meant that I got to watch as the legends trained. Then, once I joined the youth team as a young teenager, I was a midfielder just like Tardelli.

Of course that's Ajax development, giving young players a chance.

You can play football in Bayern, in Barcelona, in Manchester, in London, wherever. In the end, it's football, and you want to play with the best.

Me being at Coventry, instead of a big Premier League club, probably helped me develop. You don't get put in the academy system, playing Under-18s and Under-23s.

At school, I was always a central midfielder from a young age. Then, when I joined Villa at 16, the pre-season didn't go too well, so they looked at me as a centre-half.

Let's build women's football from the bottom before we get to the top; it's not about building from the top to get to the bottom. We can talk about the Etihad and Man United's ground, the Theatre of Dreams, in a few years' time. Let's fill the Academy Stadiums, the Kingsmeadows, first of all.

Hopefully, now there are kids, both male and female, even senior players, who open themselves up now and are more open to going abroad and playing their football. I've learnt so much, and they can, too.

At the Barcelona youth academy, I lived right next to Camp Nou, but I spent my days watching movies.

To walk out at Wembley in an England shirt is a big deal for a girl who remembers playing in her local football cage down the park in Poplar with the boys.

I play football and I want to be considered as a footballer.

I can remember when I was a 17-year-old at Swansea and Terry Yorath and Tommy Hutchison were in charge.