A Quote by Julen Lopetegui

Italy is the national team most similar to a club. — © Julen Lopetegui
Italy is the national team most similar to a club.
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.
The national team has always lent its image to help Italy's problems over the years... The national team is more about uniting than dividing.
I don't want to get to a point where I consider the national team a club team.
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.
I would say that Juventus is a myth not only in Italy, because it's the most loved team in Italy, but also around the world. And it has been in my family since birth.
When my ban was relaxed I began playing club cricket. Imagine, for a person who had played at Lord's, to play with a club team who didn't have proper kit against another club team in Lahore.
I am not interested in the Italian national team. I prefer to have a new experience, outside of Italy.
There might be more meetings and situations where you're required to represent the country in some way that wouldn't necessarily happen to you if you're a club manager, but other than that, I haven't found any differences in my approach between running a club side and a national team.
Have not fascism in Italy and National Socialism in Germany claimed that they have attained similar results [as in U.S.S.R.]? Have not both been achieved at the price of privation and personal liberty sacrificed for the good of the state?
When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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.
I can't play for the national team if I'm not playing for my club.
Van Basten went directly to the national team without coaching any other clubs. It's not the norm in Italy.
Well, Italy is huge for me. I've been going back every summer, not just to see my family, but play with the Italian National Team. So, Italy plays a huge role in my life. It will always play a huge role in my life.
When the national team plays there shouldn't be club games going on.
The most important thing when deciding on a club are the traditions of the team and the project of the club - what it is they want to do in the future.
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