Mario Kempes Quotes
When you're a player and you win the World Cup and other titles you don't get the chance to enjoy the moment because of the media scrum. You end up getting tired of it. But when the years go by and you look back on it all, then you understand just what it is that you achieved, that we achieved.
Kempes, Mario. "Kempes: I wasn't a No9." FIFA.com, FIFA, 17 July 2014.
Mario Alberto Kempes Chiodi is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a striker. His father, Mario, also a footballer, inspired him to play from a young age. He is also widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time. At the age of seven he began playing with a junior team and at fourteen, he joined the Talleres reserves. A prolific goalscorer, at club level he is best known for playing for Valencia, finishing as La Liga's top goalscorer twice, and amassing 116 goals in 184 league games for the club.