A Quote by Massimiliano Allegri

There are many good players, in Italy and abroad.

Massimiliano Allegri

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Massimiliano Allegri
Italian - Athlete
Born: August 11, 1967

Because we are a small country, unlike England, Italy, or Brazil, we don't have as many good players.

Dimitar Berbatov

In Dortmund we had many players from abroad and when you want to put your thoughts in their heads, for example with Pierre-Emerick, you had to switch to English, which is the language most players understand.

Daniel Farke

There are too many black players. Italy has no dignity, no pride.

Arrigo Sacchi

When I was in Italy in the 90s, early 2000s, everybody wanted to go to Italy, all the players.

Sven-Goran Eriksson

There is a common mistake people make. They say, 'We need to play the young English boys.' Of course, but only if they are good. How can you measure that? If they are playing with good players and if they can fit into the level of the good players. That's why, because of the level of the Premier League, England has so many talented players.

Gianfranco Zola

You do see very few English players going abroad and those that do are largely good players otherwise they wouldn't have gone, but I feel a lot of their downfall is in the language. On the pitch you can learn the different basics of 'left,' 'right' and 'behind you' but off the pitch you want to have that influence around the team.

Chris Smalling

Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.

Retief Goosen

I look back to the 1980s and 1990s, when Italian teams dominated Europe. They had maybe three players from abroad, but they were the best players in the world. That was perfect, because there was always the possibility for young Italian players to get in the team.

Gianfranco Zola

When I was a little kid wanting to play music, it was because of people like Pete Johnson, Huey Smith, Allen Toussaint, Professor Longhair, James Booker, Art Neville ... there was so many piano players I loved in New Orleans. Then there was guys from out of town that would come cut there a lot. There was so many great bebop piano players, so many great jazz piano players, so many great Latin piano players, so many great blues piano players. Some of those Afro-Cuban bands had some killer piano players. There was so many different things going on musically, and it was all of interest to me.

Dr. John

I had lots of posters on my bedroom wall of players like Zico, many Brazilian and Italian players, not many players in particular but I loved football so much and I especially loved skilful players.

Emmanuel Petit

In Italy, we have some of the best minds in the world, and we have let them all go abroad.

Beppe Grillo

In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren't interested in the sex lives of their players. We don't hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football.

Dennis Bergkamp

Juventus have always had exceptional players. I've played against them and against Italy many times. They're a tough team with great quality.

Mario Mandzukic

There are too many British players who just aren't good enough. And that's not through lack of effort. But in terms of getting to the top 100, and getting into Wimbledon on their ranking, I feel as though there are too many players who just aren't good enough.

Tim Henman

I think sometimes managers like to buy players because they're more experienced from abroad or when they've got players under their nose that will give everything to the club they've been brought up with.