Jorginho Quotes

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.

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.

Arsenal have a history of bringing through youngsters, giving them opportunities, and turning them into world-class players.

There is a specific mentality that is put into the young players at Barcelona, and from nine or 10 years old, you have to make good seasons because, if not, you are out.

It was Cosmos who actually told Crystal Palace about me. Palace came to have a look, liked what they saw, and they took it from there.

The number of French players Arsenal have brought through is very impressive, and many of the players who arrived, especially the young ones, were unknown when they arrived to the general public.

I started playing with my dad, and then I started going to soccer schools in Sunderland and managed to get scouted from there.

But I think that if a club like Barcelona sign a player, it is because he has the right qualities.

During the holidays, professional players would come and say hello to us in the academy and that really made you want to be a professional. When you saw what great conditions they lived in, it gave you even more desire.

The quality of our academy system is very high, as good as anything in the world. Around the country, lots of people in youth development are keen to get together and find a solution to that 17-to-21 age bracket and how we get those players playing.

I have friends who ended up playing professionally in the Middle East and Europe.

I think the hardest part, and where we have to stay the most disciplined, as much as you want a player, you can't invent him if he doesn't exist.

It is possible to sign many great players, but you cannot buy a team.

Liverpool give young players a good opportunity.

Clubs like Manchester United or Barcelona have a system, and then you hire personnel who fit this system.

World Cups aren't moments to invest in players.

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

There is a big emphasis at Liverpool to have an academy that brings through young players.

I trained with Chelsea for two weeks under Glenn Hoddle when they were in the relegation zone - it was a long time ago. And I also trained for Bolton when I was a young player. I was very clear, very soon, that I was missing a lot for that level.

Chelsea and Arsenal tried to sign me when I was 13, 14.

It's not easy to break into an Arsenal team from youth.

I started playing when I was about 16, and I got picked for the England youth team when I was 17 because I was doing quite well. It's all spiralled from there.

My job is to bring in players I think can help this team, regardless of where they're playing.

Our job is to find players younger, where they are able to play from 11 years old and grow up playing the game. Rather than, you start playing when you are 17 or 18 and you don't get the opportunity to do anything with your career.

Fletcher Moss was where it started for me and a lot of other players as well.