Gabriel Batistuta Quotes

As a player, you always want to play - it would be wrong to say otherwise - but you can always understand the manager's reasons if he decides to leave you out.

Losing the ball is not going to help your team, so I am trying to change that.

I always try to perform, and not because you have players on the bench or on the pitch that can play in your position.

Preparing your tactical formation is essential. Each player needs to know where he has to be, and that is why there needs to be mutual understanding: because you need absolute discipline.

In Spain, you get seven clear chances a game to receive the ball and shoot. In Italy, you get very few clear balls, and you have to fight everyone to score; that makes you improve and develop.

A keeper has to adjust his game to the team. If the team moves further up, he has to do the same. It's nothing I've invented.

You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.

In my time at Milan, the club played with a 4-3-1-2 formation, and I was the player behind the two strikers. At Real, I play behind three. There is a greater defensive obligation, but I try to work around the area.

Football is not an exact science, but it is about chemistry: Ronaldo and Mandzukic, when they are together, have an excellent understanding.

It's not just about showing people what you can do on the ball in those wider positions, it's about gaining the full understanding of each position and what it takes to get that spot.

I always wanted to play in Europe for a long time. They move the ball, and they move bodies, and that's what I like doing.

Always think of passing the ball before shooting it.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

I learned it doesn't matter how you win. You play to your team's strength.

Even the best team, without a sound plan, can't score.

You see the assets of your actors and you see their strengths and you try to play into them. It's like I feel part of my job is as a coach. I'm putting a team on the field and you want to formulate how to make the best game out of these players.

Analytics only goes so far. Basketball, more than baseball, for example, is really a team sport.

Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them

Everyone talks about the forwards, the players when they are scoring goals. But sometimes I look for the complete player not just the players who score but those who can pass.

You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.

I know what to do when they give me the ball. I know what to do to give this team a chance to win.

In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.

We did everything we could to win this game on a tricky pitch. We created a lot of opportunities but between the posts and Bonano, we failed to find the goal. We did well but we let a victory slip from our grasp. I still think we are carrying on where we left off last season and you saw a team that was working for 90 minutes. We showed off our talent but just couldn't get a goal.

My template for everything is organisation. With the ball you have to know the movement patterns, the rotation, the fluidity and positioning of the team. When we have the football everybody's a player.

He doesn't need advice on how to play his position, but he needs advice on how to play team ball... If it's going to be my team, I'll voice my opinion. If he don't like it, he can opt out.