A Quote by Eran Zahavi

When we are with the national team we are playing against much better players.

Eran Zahavi

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Eran Zahavi
Israeli - Athlete
Born: July 25, 1987

The players who have been with the national team for a long time are used to international competitions, used to playing against the best in the world.

Julen Lopetegui

Yes, the national team is all one team. We are not Real Madrid players, Barcelona players, Celta Vigo players... all of us are a group.

Lucas Vazquez

It had never been a decision to choose between the French national team or the Senegalese national team because I was growing up in France and playing in the French youth national team, so it was something really normal.

Patrick Vieira

Playing against 10 is harder than playing against 11 players. You know why? The team with 11 will think "ok, we can take it easy now", while the team with 10 will think "We really have to work hard now."

Johan Cruijff

You cannot compare the way someone plays for a club and for a national team. At a club, you spend every day with the same players. In a national team, you are with your team-mates for only a few days.

Robert Pires

The captains of the national team are the ones that have played the most matches. That's what I had in the national team. Maximum respect to those players.

Luis Enrique

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.

Zico

I enjoyed playing for the national team, the French national team, because I think France gave me a lot and gave my family a lot, so to wear the French national team shirt was really good, and I wore it with pride.

Patrick Vieira

As NBA players, so much of the game is mental, as far as confidence and playing against the best players in the world.

Pat Connaughton

Players must understand that if they go after more lucrative contracts, then they forfeit their chances of playing in the national team.

Clarence Seedorf

Our goal as a team is to keep playing as a group for as long as we can because you will never have that team again. It is like a dying limb, you have to prune it off and let another one grow in its place. That is the way you have to do it, but it still hurts losing these guys and that team because they and you have put so much effort into building a team. Even if you win that last game (and a national championship), it hurts badly because the players know they will never have that same special group of guys together on the same team again. Somebody always goes and somebody new always comes in.

Don Meyer

It's obviously important for the English national team if you have a lot of players playing big matches. You are more mature and know how to cope.

Edgar Davids

There's seriously talented players who have been around for a long time, both in the national team and with Bayern, so there's always a danger of not playing so often.

Joshua Kimmich

If players from our national team are playing in the Bundesliga, it for me shows that it is at least as strong and attractive as the Premier League or La Liga.