A Quote by Jermaine Jenas

I wanted to play for England at a World Cup and to grace the pitch for even two minutes at such a big tournament would have been huge. — © Jermaine Jenas
I wanted to play for England at a World Cup and to grace the pitch for even two minutes at such a big tournament would have been huge.
When I was the coach at Mainz in the Bundesliga, a small club in Germany, we always wanted to play the big teams every two years, right after a major tournament, whether it was a World Cup or European Championships.
If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three.
Every player would love to play a tournament like the World Cup at home.
I've been lucky enough to experience some big tournaments at Under-21 level and would love to be part of a World Cup in England.
The biggest thing right now is to know that I just didn't give up. It would have been the easiest thing for me to just go ahead and pull out of the tournament with what has been going on over the last week - just to be up there with my mum and support her. But I really wanted to come down here and play with Adam (Scott) and really try to win the World Cup and we achieved that which was great.
This is something I've wanted to do my whole life, to play in a World Cup, to play in a World Cup final and win the World Cup.
When I told my wife UConn would win the Big East tournament, she wanted to know why a team from Alaska got into the Big East tournament.
I would never dream of telling them how to play but it would be amazing if England won the World Cup.
The 2017 European Championship was my first major tournament for England, but everyone tells me the World Cup is a different level.
If I'd still been in one piece from the World Cup and gone through my career, what type of player would I have been? No doubt about it, if I hadn't had as many injuries I would have been the all-time leading scorer for England.
The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.
On the pitch, my first tournament, the European Championship in England in 2005, was special.
I tried to do everything on the pitch to play at the World Cup. It wasn't enough.
I would like to wish the England squad every success. I would also very much like to extend those wishes to Martin Johnson, Brian Smith, Mike Ford, John Wells, Graham Rowntree and the rest of the England 2011 World Cup management team who have been fantastic and deserve people to know that.
The World Cup is the ultimate moment for any player. It is the opportunity to defend your country in the biggest tournament in the world and the moment the whole world will watch you play.
Every tournament and every international game played gives you additional experience which brings you forward, both on the pitch and off it, but there is nothing more special than playing a World Cup on home soil.
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