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Roberto Di Matteo

Profession : Footballer

Birth : May 29, 1970

Obviously if there is a Chinese player that has the quality and the ability we will certainly be looking to recruit.

Roberto Di Matteo

I don't forget my roots. My father was an emigrant from Italy who worked in a steel factory. My mother worked part-time. When my father came home she would go out to work, cleaning offices.

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I simply do not know what the future will hold, but I will accept what it brings me.

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I'm generally an optimistic person.

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I feel responsible. That's the way my personality is.

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You have to kind of sustain a level of performance in the Championship to be able to come out of it at the end of the season.

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Pierluigi Gollini is a highly-rated goalkeeper in Italy, he's young, a good shot-stopper, he comes for crosses, he's good with his feet.

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For most players it's hard to accept you've ended your football career and that you have to go out and do something else. But the way it happened to me, so suddenly... I went into depression and had to deal with that, being depressed, something that had never happened to me in my life before.

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I still did some things in football, but I needed to get away from the game. I needed closure. And once I felt I'd achieved that, the hunger came back. That fire in your belly, the desire to feel the adrenaline at the weekend. That's when I felt I was able to go again.

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I've experienced being a manager and I would love one day to do it again.

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Every session we do we try and talk about the way we want to play, I try to organize the sessions in a way that the players can understand the way I want them to play.

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Pre-season is a lot of hard work and no player really enjoys it, but you look forward to the start of the season when the competitive games start.

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We want to challenge ourselves against the top teams in the world and are happy to be competing on so many fronts. And, personally, it's great for me to work with the quality of player we have here at Chelsea.

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It's a daily plan to solve the problems thrown at us and emerge stronger. You pick things up on the way, and you even learn from the players you work with, but your overall philosophy doesn't change.

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We were under pressure at West Brom to get promoted and to stay up, even if, at a big club like Chelsea, the pressures are more highlighted by the public scrutiny you're under. It's part of our job, that pressure, and I cope with it well.

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It's the biggest challenge for any manager to play against the best team in the world, but for every player as well.

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I wouldn't lie and say it's not disappointing to have reached so many semis and a final and not won the Champions League.

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Some of my worst moments in football have been losing semi-finals, the Barcelona game in 2009 probably more than most. But you have to take it and bounce back.

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What I believe is that we need a united group, people who are willing to fight for the club in the Championship. They need to put their services into the good of the team, for the good of the team.

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I had a very traumatic end to my career so I didn't think I would become a manager then. As the years pass by the fire in you, the hunger, the desire for success comes back.

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