The Labyrinth

"I stopped playing football because I didn't recognize it anymore. Nowadays young players are thinking about other things. As a kid all I thought about was coaching and becoming great in this sport I always loved. In Lazio and in the national team, after every training session, I put myself in a bathtub full of ice to avoid injury. But the young players of the team systematically refused.
When they saw me packing my bags of balls to leave at the end of practice, they said "But who tells you to do that?"
That moment I said to myself: 'You're 20 years old and can't help a 60 year old worker?'
They’re more interested in whether their shoes match their socks. That's why I said stop. The football I used to know is no more.
Today's young players think first about cars, contracts with their sponsors and new shoes. Only after all this does football come. For them, their image is the most important thing. Whereas for me, all that mattered was football in its purest form."

Miroslav Close

🎙️🗣️🇵🇹 Jose Mourinho: "Ibra came into the dressing room and said: 'I'm leaving Inter, I'm going to Barcelona. I want to win the Champions League!'
My Italian assistants stood like statues, frozen by this desire of the Swede, while his teammates did not want to lose a player like him.
Without him, winning the Champions League would have been impossible. I felt bad, but at the same time I said to him: 'Maybe you'll leave... and we'll win the Champions League'.
He didn't believe me then. Then I went to the director Branca and said: 'When you go to Barcelona to negotiate Zlatan's transfer there, try to bring me Eto'o. With Milito, he will do a great tactical job in attack. If you bring me Samuel Eto'o, we'll win the Champions League! And that's exactly what happened".

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