Victor Valdes Quotes

Victor Valdes

Profession : Coach

Birth : January 14, 1982

As a goalkeeper, you have to take risks even though at times you may make mistakes.

Victor Valdes

It might not look like it but I'm quite shy. I'm an introvert. That's the way I am, how I feel.

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I'm passionate about windsurfing: two hours on the water is like a week's holiday, complete disconnection. You see the land a long way off and nobody and nothing can bother you apart from the occasional fish swimming past.

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I've finished games where I've hardly touched the ball yet I've got to the dressing room dead. You think: why? Because psychologically you're completely immersed and that can be more tiring than physical exertion.

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Ultimately, goalkeepers are on their own. I like the solitude.

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Always in my career, I have played to help my team-mates, to help my coach and to help everybody. I am a part of the team.

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I do what I want with my teams.

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I don't have any bad words for Van Gaal or Manchester United. They helped me through my injury and the manager gave me my chance as a footballer at Barcelona and then again at United. He's like a father figure to me.

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Sometimes at United I thought 'I don't need this,' but I am a fighter and a professional.

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You are always waiting for your opportunity to play and train every day to show your performance to the manager.

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Barca has given me everything and I owe them everything, but being a goalkeeper here takes it out of you.

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I don't have any problem with Louis van Gaal. He discovered me when I was 20 years old. He was the only coach who, in that moment, said: 'I want you in the first team.'

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I had two options: stay in Manchester but not play or go to Standard... to enjoy my football, the fans and, above all, to get back to feeling like a footballer and to be able to train every day. I went for the second option.

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Lionel is a very important part of the team and there is no doubt he is missed when he doesn't play. But we can't always be waiting for, or dependent, on one individual.

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Every player has qualities to offer to the group as a whole.

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I would have played lots of matches as a kid where I would go home afterwards without having touched the ball.

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Mentally it can be exhausting when you are not physically involved, because you still have to stay completely focused.

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I have finished games where I have hardly touched the ball, yet reached the dressing room dead on my feet. You think to yourself, 'Why?' and it's because, psychologically, you have to be completely immersed in the game despite not being physically active.

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You have to give orders on the pitch, so if you don't understand the system, what kind of orders are you going to give?

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I am a very difficult person to work and live with. My wife deserves the biggest of trophies.

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