Mauro Icardi Quotes

Chinese players are not as naturally skilled like South American or European players, like players who learned football when they were kids. They're not good.

Those years in Denmark changed my game and how I played football.

You try and pick up something from everyone you work with and I grew up watching Jame Carragher and it was such an honour to train with Liverpool's first team.

I began my journey as a 16-year-old boy at the Arsenal's academy, trying to one day become a first team player, going out for evening runs in East Barnet with Jack Wilshere.

My dad produces good footballers.

Thierry is an Arsenal legend and I had an opportunity to spend time with him when he was a coach at the academy.

I think La Masia is the most important academy in the world. The coaches and the whole club helps you for your future.

He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything - his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big play.

I still love to find and develop the young athletes in traditional ways. I like to watch the physical and mental growth. That has always been very exciting.

I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

Being a part of the National Football League for so long, I've come across so many trainers and equipment managers who've allowed me to be who I am today.

Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE teachers, but the teachers who helped me in sport because they had an understanding of what you were going through.

My generation put in a lot more hours playing football after school than kids today. These days, all the football these kids play, they play at their clubs, so the clubs need to work seriously on the basic skills.

Zidane is a Real Madrid legend. He teaches us things in every training session - even just by playing with us.

I learned a lot at Chelsea partly down to the players I played alongside.

I want to teach the young people the way I see football. The way I eat, the way I am in training.

For me, playing through all the youth teams at Borussia Dortmund was a really good experience because I was able to play against talented opponents at a relatively early age.

When I was young, the best moment came when I was 10 and I got invited to the academy. I remember getting all this Ajax training gear and suddenly I was able to call myself an Ajax player.

I've watched what coaches do for young people in our country.

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

You can't play football without having a good training pitch.

I trained with some great keepers at college, alongside full-grown men, and it helped me 100%.

I first learnt to play football as a striker and it was only when I joined City that I learnt how to become a midfielder thanks to the help I received from the staff at the Academy.

When I left City I was still young and there was a lot for me to learn in all parts of my game. To come back and have learned something at a place like Chelsea is down partly to the kind of players I played alongside.