I want to be the strongest player, the most intelligent player, and the most skilled player on the court at all times.
Matuidi is a midfielder of international importance that has everything and gives it all. He is physically strong, intelligent, always progressive with the ball.
Lahm is the most intelligent player I have ever trained in my career
Diego Simeone, the coach from Atletico Madrid, was a very strong player as a midfielder.
I was full of confidence in myself that I would reach the top or be a professional player as a midfielder.
When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb.
Every player wants to be as complete as possible and goals for a central midfielder are very important.
When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than (Ty) Cobb.
Samir Nasri is a very technical player who always made the difference playing as a midfielder when he is fit.
He's a gritty hockey player, he's got good vision, he's an intelligent player.
I have always been a midfielder, and I remain a midfielder.
I don't have that intuition, of changing a defender for a midfielder, for example. I'm incompetent on that matter, to put a player on the pitch and hope that he magically finds a solution.
I was a No. 9 for so long and that's what I knew. And I think, me as an attacking midfielder, or any kind of midfielder, I should be in and around the box and have that mindset that I'm going to score and help my team as much as possible.
It is one of my biggest regrets that Niall Quinn was not here during my time... I felt he was an intelligent player. It would have been a good combination with Thierry Henry. What I like with Quinn is if you look at the player who played next to him, he always scored 40 goals because he had a hand for his head and he just put the ball where you were. He was a team player. A top-class player makes other players look good and he had that player.
Most people who have found that they are more intelligent than most around them, have yet to learn that one of the most intelligent things they can do is prevent said people ever finding this out.
I have already worked Dunga. He helped me at Internacional, making me a more defensive midfielder. But I can play as a first or second midfielder, like I do at Shakhtar.