For most players it's hard to accept you've ended your football career and that you have to go out and do something else. But the way it happened to me, so suddenly... I went into depression and had to deal… — Roberto Di Matteo Copy Share Image
Pre-season is a lot of hard work and no player really enjoys it, but you look forward to the start of the season when the competitive games start. — Roberto Di Matteo Copy Share Image
I still did some things in football, but I needed to get away from the game. I needed closure. And once I felt I'd… — Roberto Di Matteo Copy Share Image
We were under pressure at West Brom to get promoted and to stay up, even if, at a big club like Chelsea, the pressures… — Roberto Di Matteo Copy Share Image
I had a very traumatic end to my career so I didn't think I would become a manager then. As the years pass by… — Roberto Di Matteo Copy Share Image
You have to kind of sustain a level of performance in the Championship to be able to come out of it at the end… — Roberto Di Matteo Copy Share Image
It's a daily plan to solve the problems thrown at us and emerge stronger. You pick things up on the way, and you even… — Roberto Di Matteo Copy Share Image
My football philosophy is to win as many games as possible. Brand of football? I believe in mixing a bit of everything. You have… — Roberto Di Matteo Copy Share Image
There was not much money around, but my sister and I were happy. All the sports facilities were 10 minutes' walk from my house… — Roberto Di Matteo Copy Share Image
It was something I always wanted to do, to own a restaurant, because I love food. But particularly when I first moved to London,… — Roberto Di Matteo Copy Share Image
Every session we do we try and talk about the way we want to play, I try to organize the sessions in a way… — Roberto Di Matteo Copy Share Image
I don't forget my roots. My father was an emigrant from Italy who worked in a steel factory. My mother worked part-time. When my… — Roberto Di Matteo Copy Share Image
Every day I become a bit more of a support mechanism. It wasn't difficult at all to make the change. Would I go back… — Roberto Di Matteo Copy Share Image
