Marcel Desailly Quotes

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Marcel Desailly

Profession : Footballer

Birth : September 7, 1968

I was a heavyweight in the football world. You don't have of the type of players that I was anymore.

Marcel Desailly

Baba Rahman should not give up. I think he has the level to be at Chelsea as a first choice, so he should try more.

Marcel Desailly

For me, Aubameyang will be the best player to adapt to the Conte system.

Marcel Desailly

I have not been a skilful, talented player.

Marcel Desailly

In football you have to be lucky. I'm a lucky man.

Marcel Desailly

Out of 100, Marseille was 40 and Milan was 100. It's that simple. Organisation, the stadium, 82,000 people in the San Siro for every match, Milanello, the training camp, the food, the dress, Milan is the fashion city of the world, the international exposure that I experienced; it's a different world.

Marcel Desailly

Football is both complicated and simple at the same time.

Marcel Desailly

In 2002 we went into the first World Cup in Asia as reigning champions and we had also added the European crown in 2000, playing better football and with more confidence in our ability.

Marcel Desailly

To win a second World Cup is super tough - just look at Spain in 2014 and Germany in Russia, like us knocked out in the group phase.

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It is possible to make a slow start and still win it - look at Spain in 2010, beaten by Switzerland in their first match but world champions a few weeks later.

Marcel Desailly

I'm not like those who moan about having little teams at these competitions - for me that's what the World Cup is all about.

Marcel Desailly

In modern football all the teams are capable of getting organised and causing problems. The underdogs are not scared any more.

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I remember we had a terrible start to the 2002 World Cup, losing to Senegal when we were the reigning world and European champions.

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Smaller nations now believe in their capacity to cause problems and to challenge the traditional powers of world football.

Marcel Desailly

Playing a World Cup on home soil, getting to the final and then winning it - it doesn't get any bigger or any better than that.

Marcel Desailly

Sometimes a game plan comes off and it can be as simple as that!

Marcel Desailly

As far as penalties are concerned, you have to be used to taking them and you have to be confident.

Marcel Desailly

With Didier we'd started out together at Nantes, won the Champions League at Marseille and stayed in touch when he was with Juventus and me with Milan.

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It feels as if I have known Didier Deschamps all my life.

Marcel Desailly

It is much tougher than people might think for a former player to become a coach, a manager - at least a very successful one.

Marcel Desailly