A Quote by Mauro Icardi

It will be hard to become the best South American striker because, from Argentina, there are lots of outstanding players.

Mauro Icardi

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Mauro Icardi
Argentinian - Athlete
Born: February 19, 1993

There are too many coming from different countries. When we started, foreign players were in the minority. All the best players from Spain, France, Brazil, Argentina are going to England. And Ireland is bound to suffer.

Kevin Kilbane

My second year in Rome was very good. Back then, a striker was a striker. Strikers scored goals; they didn't defend. Today this is normal, but it wasn't at that time. If you wanted to play my style of football you couldn't have old players or famous players who were unwilling to do the job both ways: attacking and also defending.

Sven-Goran Eriksson

Argentina and Brasil are both extremely good south american teams who'll play a central role at the worldcup.

Thomas Muller

Chinese players are not as naturally skilled like South American or European players, like players who learned football when they were kids. They're not good.

Carlos Tevez

When I was in government, the South African economy was growing at 4.5% - 5%. But then came the global financial crisis of 2008/2009, and so the global economy shrunk. That hit South Africa very hard, because then the export markets shrunk, and that includes China, which has become one of the main trade partners with South Africa. Also, the slowdown in the Chinese economy affected South Africa. The result was that during that whole period, South Africa lost something like a million jobs because of external factors.

Thabo Mbeki

Argentina won't be at Euro 2000 because they're from South America.

Kevin Keegan

Best players I played with? Striker wise, well, I had a great record with Emile Heskey - he would be one of my favourite partnerships because we were so different and worked together so well.

Michael Owen

We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unlucky to be drawn in the same group as the two tournament favourites Italy and Argentina.

Michel Patini

You need two or three players who can do that - play behind the striker, on the right wing, the left wing... striker, maybe. If we have those, it's good for the team.

Roberto Mancini

I've played as a lone striker and enjoyed it, especially if you have good supporting players around you. But a full season by myself? That would be hard.

Diego Forlan

I've worked hard and dreamed, and that helped me become one of the best players in the world.

Samuel Eto'o

If, say, a striker knows that scoring 30 goals in a season will lead to them winning a prestigious award then they will try that little bit harder because, regardless of what players may say, individual recognition on the world stage is important.

Eniola Aluko

In the South, the food is outstanding. Down south, we eat to get full, and the people up north, they don't do that.

Frank Thomas

As players, we have the best job in the world and if the manager said, 'You haven't worked hard enough, you will only get half your wages this week,' it would make the players fight harder.