Team Formation Quotes

Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off wanting to be solitary, because a) it's simpler, and b) that isolation is something that I relate to as a storyteller. And then no matter what, I always end up with a team.

When you talk about forming an offensive identity, it's about, first, let's figure out what our players do best.

When you first assemble a group, it's not a team right off the bat. It's only a collection of individuals

I always tried to defend high up the pitch, to be in the opposition's half and play the game there.

The biggest challenge is to build the team and start the company, while hiring people, raising money, building a brand which has no history, all at the same time. You're doing a lot of things that in an established company are already done.

I must have just dreamed that about Liverpool playing 3-4-3. What do people think that was, a bit of luck? A British coach playing 3-4-3? A foreign coach doing that would be a tactical genius. I imagine people think I fell into that system through a stroke of luck or something... it took some thought. I didn't just throw them out there.

It's a different playing style than at Monaco; there were two of us in midfield there, and here at Liverpool, there's three.

They called themselves The Souls. They told Ms. Olinski that they were The Souls before they were a team, but she told them that they were a team as soon as they became The Souls. Then after a while, teacher and team agreed that they were arguing chicken-or-egg. Whichever way it began--chicken-or-egg, team-or-The Souls--it definitely ended with an egg. Definitely, an egg.

I don't think I will ever make my all-time greatest India team. You cannot compare one era with another, as they will be different.

I experienced how Pep Guardiola worked every day. He had football on his mind round the clock: 'What system does the opponent like to play? How do I want to set up my team, who do I want in which position?'

Everybody is excited to play so I think who plays with whom is a minor thing at this point.

When I've watched teams that play with five at the back and wing-backs, I've looked at their starting positions and positions out of possession because that comes a little bit more unnaturally to me.

Pep Guardiola saw me as a central player in his system, which my style of play fit into perfectly.

I don't love the idea of three superstars coming together to form a dream team, I'd rather teams are built more organically, just as a fan it's more interesting to see.

Donald Trump will be the next president, the 45th president of the United States. And it will be up to him to set up a team that he thinks will serve him well and reflect his policies. It takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality. Hopefully, it's a reminder that elections matter. I think it's important for us to let him make his decisions, and I think the American people will judge over the course of the next couple of years whether they like what they see.

I often felt as a player in a 4-4-2, you end up being outnumbered in midfield and chasing the ball, so as a manager I liked wingbacks to push forward; it gives the midfield player on the ball three or four options.

I don't like getting pinned back with a line of four in midfield. You risk losing too much space.

When you're playing against a team that has two great central defenders, the best option is to play without a striker.

When you play the top sides you cannot afford to be as open as 4-4-2 can leave you. Consequently teams adapt their formation.

When you go to a World Cup, in midfield you need to have players who can score from distance, who can get in the box and obviously play-make.

In my period at Chelsea, I was sometimes the one who switched sides because we were playing with two left-footed guys on the wings with myself and Damian Duff.

Every opposition needs to be played in a different way and the formation depends on the opposition's strengths.

Everybody in Ajax plays 4-3-3, from seven years old, so they get used to the system. It's all about being a total player.

I'm going to start a polo team with my friend, and we're trying to collect as many horses as we can. You have to find time for things you love.