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WHAT SOCCER STARS SAID….this 2021
A Picture Gallery of Some motivational quotes and controversial talks by football stars in 2021.
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Season’s greetings from us Ikeja Bird
Managing the England team last year was great but being around the players made me want to lace up the boots again – now I’ve got that chance, one last time.
# Soccer Aid for Unicef has been a massive force for good since it started back in 2006 and I know the public will support us again this year by purchasing tickets, which are now on sale.”… Rooney
Top Soccer Players team up together in one voice, to Bash Plans for Super League 2021:
Respect 
1. Paris-Saint Germain midfielder Ander Herrera, formerly of Super League co-founder Manchester United, said the new league is “the rich stealing what the people created.”
2. Former Arsenal man Ozil spoke of his “dreaming to win the World Cup and Champions League — not Super League” while Podolski branded the move “disgusting” and added that that he is “disappointed to see the club I represented involved.”
3. Fernandes said that “dreams can’t be bought” in reply to an Instagram post by Daniel Podence.
4. Dejan Lovren, who moved this season to Zenit Saint Petersburg after several years with Super League co-founder Liverpool, said the concept threatens the entire game of global soccer.
Messi : On arriving in Paris: “I’ have been enjoying my time in Paris since the first minute”
Best quotes from Lionel Messi’s first press conference as a PSG player..
1. On his favourite Barca memory…
“It is really difficult to choose just one moment. A lot of things I’ve lived, good things and bad things. Maybe the time when I made my debut. That was my dream come true and everything that came later was amazing, but I’ll always remember that moment that everything started.”
2. On accepting he was leaving Barcelona: “This whole week I have gone through ups and downs but we are processing it everyday, little by little.”
Messi said directly to Lewandowski: “You deserve your Ballon D’Or. Last year, everyone was in agreement to say that you were the big winner.”
He also insisted that the organisers of the award, France Football, should hand Lewandowski the 2020 award in recognition of his achievements. During the 2021 ballon d’Or award ceremony
By zlatan ibrahimovic
1. PSG’s project is to dream bigger, but if you buy Messi, you don’t dream bigger – you are bigger!
2.I think I’m like wine. The older I get, the better I get.
3. We usually say that you cannot become a legend before death. But I am a living legend.
zlatan ibrahimovic
Jose Mourinho’s controversial 2021 memorable comments..
1. “Because he never beat me. You are not going to do a chapter about 13 or 14 matches that you never win so why should he speak about me in his book. A book is a thing to make you happy and proud so I perfectly understand the situation.” Jose is Not one to let an old rivalry die, Mourinho came out fighting when asked why he did not feature in Arsene Wenger’s book.
2.“They played with a lot of desire that I can call it also professionalism, because for me professionalism starts exactly in the attitude. To be a professional you must have attitude every day and in every minute of every game. Then more talent, less talent makes a difference between players but what is never negotiable is attitude and they beat us on attitude.” – Mourinho was scathing of his side after they suffered a Europa League humiliation to Dinamo Zagreb in March 2021.
3. “Same coach. Different players.” – Mourinho let everyone know just who he blamed for Spurs continually letting in late goals after a 2-2 draw against Newcastle in April 2021.
4. “I just want to say that Sonny is very lucky that his father is a better person than Ole. I am a father. I think as a father you have always to feed your kids. Doesn’t matter what they do. If you have to steal to feed your kids, you steal. I’m very, very disappointed. As we say in Portugal, bread is bread and cheese is cheese. I told Ole already what I think about his comments and I’m very disappointed that in five, six, seven questions you ignore the dimensions of that comment.” Mourinho, deploying a tactical diversion following a defeat to Manchester United, went in on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer following the Norwegian’s comments about Son Heung-min.
