Zico Quotes

Zico

Profession : Coach

Birth : March 3, 1953

There is nothing wrong in losing with dignity, it is a part of the game.

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Football is a collective sport and many times it doesn't depend on you playing well. It depends if the team is playing well.

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The history of Brazil goes from Pele to Garrincha, Didi, Tostao, Gerson, then to all of us who followed them.

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Arsene Wenger's mentality has been to bring together footballers who bring happiness in our sport, the type of players I like to watch. I've followed him since he was in Japan, and he always was a guardian of the art of football - football with happiness and football played well.

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It is always good to keep learning. Every day things change and we should recycle ourselves every day.

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Everything Maradona did, he did with a guy hanging on his neck during 90 minutes.

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If you want to try new challenges you have to adapt.

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Everyone has the right to make mistakes.

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Brazilian football has always been very much admired in Japan and, of course, after my participation and so many other Brazilians, it was like they created a new style of play in homage to Brazilian football.

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I remember winning the Asian Cup in 2004 in China, coming through so much adversity including a final against the hosts. We won 3-1 and it was a wonderful competition, which we won by playing great football.

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Maradona is among the best five players I've ever seen: Garrincha, Pele, Diego, Cruijff and Beckenbauer.

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Sometimes you decide games, but you can't decide a competition. So, Messi's merit is not undone because he hasn't won a World Cup.

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Football is a collective game, not an individual game.

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Both Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi never ever stop playing for the team. If I were young today, they are players on which I would mirror myself. Players of this level, play for the team. Players that are the best because they prepared themselves to bet You don't see these players going out, on social media, skipping training to be in parties.

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When God built Pele, he put everything that a player needs in him. He knew how to shoot, how to dribble, how to head, be physical. He had everything that a football player needs to have. It's difficult for someone to achieve what he has in football.

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Tactically, technically, physically, mentally he was the best. A lot of things that I learnt was from Pele's sticker albums: how to head, how to shoot the ball. It was like a step-by-step guide. I learnt from Pele as a kid.

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When I was a kid, my big hero was the number 10 of Flamengo and not the number 10 of Santos. His name was Dida. We didn't have much knowledge about the championship in Sao Paolo or in the south of Brazil. We just knew about the championship in Rio because I am from there. But Pele played for the national team and was a hero.

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I don't think Pele was the ultimate hero for our generation, he is the ultimate hero of every generation of Brazilians.

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My father taught me to love Flamengo, which has always been my second home.

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I've always done everything with love and dedication, thinking of the best for the club and the fans.

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