Toni Duggan Quotes

We have to change the way we coach kids in the long-term so that by the time they hit 16, they are better than the Spanish, French, and German players. That is the big challenge, but the No. 1 criteria for me has always been how you are technically judged, from the age of eight, not size or power.

Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries.

I played street soccer; that's where I started. If you look at South America, that's why they have technical players.

I prefer to play in Spain than in the Premiership. Spanish football is more like my qualities.

English football is changing: the champions don't play a 'typical' English style, for example. But in general, it's quicker than in Spain: more counter-attacks, more open, more direct.

I love watching English football. There are teams in the Premier League that play a style similar to Spanish teams - Arsenal, for example - but in general, it's much quicker; there's so much pace.

As a professional soccer player, I need to get touches on the ball every day, and obviously it's a lot easier to do that with a team than to motivate yourself to do it by yourself.

I'm a big advocate of starting soccer young and always having the ball at your foot, but that's because I didn't do that. If I'd focused more on that when I was a kid, it would've been so helpful. It took me, like, halfway through college to feel comfortable with the ball.

English football is very different, and I had to adapt to it much more than I would have had if I had stayed in the Russian league. But after a season, I felt a lot better, a lot fitter.

It is all right having Atletico Madrid and Barca at the top, but what about teams like Tenerife who play on such bad pitches? These little things need to improve, but media-wise, Spanish women's football is a lot further along than in England.

Tuchel shows me how to move and what I could do better. He wants to take me to absolute top level.

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

I have butt muscles, thigh muscles, and then my upper body is super skinny - except for in my shoulders, which you need for a little bit of strength to hold other players off the ball. So I think I've developed muscles 100 per cent from just shooting the ball and running. Every single thing about my body looks like soccer.

I'm 100 percent a byproduct of my sport. I always tell my teammates that I only have muscles where they get to play.

Looking from the outside at English football, at Spanish football, it's more interesting, and they have the champions and the celebrities that they want to see. But with the passion that Italians have for football, the pride that they have, I don't think the game will stay that way.

I was playing in a tournament in Brazil and an agent scouted me. He took me to his soccer school. The idea was he used it to scout players and anyone he thought was good enough he took over to Italy. That's what he did with me when I was 15.

When I first came to England to play I saw coaches having a go at players when they made mistakes and they would literally be talking them through the game.

I started to play at four years old. I went to Corinthians at nine years old. Then, it started to become more serious.

It's funny: one of the strongest parts of my game today is heading, and that only really developed when I started playing at the professional level. In the youth teams, all we did was passing.

When I played for Boston Breakers in my early twenties, I really stepped up my training, which meant running drills until you're sick.

I like many things in English football - everyone lives and breathes it here. Of course, that doesn't mean I don't like Spanish football.

I was about five or six when I went to the little foundation camps. I got into the academy when I was nine, and I've gone through every age group since and into the first team.

I'm an engineer by training.

I was trained to be more technical in Europe because that's the audience. They enjoy a more technical style.

Scholes was playing tiki-taka football when nobody in England knew what it was. He was another of those players, like Denis Law or Bobby Moore, who at 15 probably looked as if he wouldn't make it.