A Quote by Nuno Espirito Santo

To be called up to the national team is what you want.

Nuno Espirito Santo

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National National Team Team Up Want What You Want

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Nuno Espirito Santo
Portuguese - Athlete
Born: January 25, 1974

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

You don't get called up to the national team because you tell good jokes, you are funny, you are handsome or because you are Messi's friend. You are called up because you have a role at your given club and you have personality.

Mario Kempes

If I'm called up by any England team, I'm willing to go. I'm not going to pull out of any England team. Ask any young kid who wants to play for their national team, and everyone's the same. We're all dying to do it.

Theo Walcott

I just want to say that aside from Atlanta United, any national team gives you a little bit more free time. I don't want to get completely into the analysis. There are different responsibilities compared to clubs and national team.

Gerardo Martino

Being called up to the national team isn't a competition of who's more patriotic.

Gerard Pique

It makes me proud if my players are called up the national team.

Filippo Inzaghi

What one does in one's club is what determines whether one gets called up for the national team.

Carlos Tevez

Being called up to the national team is about going with them, playing the best you possibly can, and trying to win. That's how I understand it.

Gerard Pique

And at West Ham no one gives you a puzzled look if you get called up for your national team and players are never asked to play on injections.

Freddie Ljungberg

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

I am very happy to have been called up by the national team. It's indeed another achievement in my career and I've worked a lot and very hard for this moment.

Ederson

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

I gave up on the national team - I thought to myself, 'Well, that's just not something that's going to happen for me.' The national team was in residency camp; I was 6,000 miles away. Nobody was watching, nobody cared... I'm just going to go play for myself and my team and try to be great... and I had more fun than I'd have ever had.