Giroud is the perfect team-mate and player for the France national team. — Marcel Desailly Copy Share Image
All the small details make the difference and allow you to become a major team in Europe. — Marcel Desailly Copy Share Image
Any team that wins a competition will celebrate, of course, there's nothing more normal. — Marcel Desailly Copy Share Image
Spain, with their player development model, has been able to sustain a league that keeps all their players in the system and… — Marcel Desailly Copy Share Image
Why does everyone always think a player must completely re-evaluate the state of his career just because he has not played in… — Marcel Desailly Copy Share Image
One is never 100 per cent motivated. In winter, when it's raining and you have to go and play a small team… — Marcel Desailly Copy Share Image
When you look at the French championship you ask yourself which team could make you want to return happily to France. For… — Marcel Desailly Copy Share Image
I got professional from 18, 19 years of age, and I got my opportunity to join the French national team, so there… — Marcel Desailly Copy Share Image
In '98, we were not the best team. But after that, we had the anger to prove to the whole world we… — Marcel Desailly Copy Share Image
Mbappe needs time and we mustn't rush him. But I have great faith in his ability to succeed because I can see… — Marcel Desailly Copy Share Image
Maybe when you are eight, nine, 10 the coach can be influenced by the social level of the parents to put their… — Marcel Desailly Copy Share Image
To experience playing with other big players, to be maybe a second choice. To face difficulty, a new language for his family. It's a… — Marcel Desailly Copy Share
Honestly when you look at football when Sepp Blatter was made FIFA president in 1998, the global budget for the World Cup in France,… — Marcel Desailly Copy Share
Because he knows he has the talent to change games, you get the impression Neymar wants to be the one to do that something… — Marcel Desailly Copy Share
In 2002 we went into the first World Cup in Asia as reigning champions and we had also added the European crown in 2000,… — Marcel Desailly Copy Share
This is the sort of situation I enjoy: a game in the San Siro, a huge crowd and a night for big men. Remember,… — Marcel Desailly Copy Share
Giroud is the perfect team-mate and player for the France national team. — Marcel Desailly Copy Share
As a player, Di Matteo helped build the foundations of a winning mentality that Chelsea was in need of at the time. He was… — Marcel Desailly Copy Share
Smaller nations now believe in their capacity to cause problems and to challenge the traditional powers of world football. — Marcel Desailly Copy Share
I'm not like those who moan about having little teams at these competitions - for me that's what the World Cup is all about. — Marcel Desailly Copy Share
To compete with Spain and France you have to copy the model that we have established in the clubs. You have to start from… — Marcel Desailly Copy Share
I nearly signed for Monaco because it was a more stable club. My family were in favour of Monaco. At Marseille everything is more… — Marcel Desailly Copy Share
I remember we had a terrible start to the 2002 World Cup, losing to Senegal when we were the reigning world and European champions. — Marcel Desailly Copy Share
