Africa Quote by Marcel Desailly Download Open image “One thing's for sure - Africa needs to have its best teams at the World Cup.” — Marcel Desailly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Africa Best Needs World World cup
If African teams can realize the importance of team spirit they will know that they can win a World Cup. — Cafu Copy Share
When we play at the World Cup, any African will back any African team. Because we want to hear the different approach to African… — Yaya Toure Copy Share Image
It's difficult to have the Africa Cup of Nations during the season because you focus on the league, and then you go to Africa,… — Riyad Mahrez Copy Share Image
We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful. — Jacob Zuma Copy Share Image
Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people. That is why it is so important that the FIFA World Cup will, for the first time ever, be hosted on the African continent in 2010. We feel privileged and humbled that South Africa has… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share
Of course African teams are underachieving when you think of what their potential is. — Clarence Seedorf Copy Share Image
I believe an African team will one day win the World Cup, and it could even be in Brazil. — Jay-Jay Okocha Copy Share Image
There is so many good people in Africa. And a huge talent among the football players. — Sven-Goran Eriksson Copy Share Image
It's a massive thing to win the African Nations. It will go down in history. It was my first tournament with Nigeria, and winning… — Victor Moses 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Giroud is the perfect team-mate and player for the France national team. — Marcel Desailly Copy Share Image
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 Image
Smaller nations now believe in their capacity to cause problems and to challenge the traditional powers of world football. — Marcel Desailly Copy Share Image
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 Image
Africa, being the major target of colonial plunder, therefore becomes a major source of conflict. — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
I'm in 'Madagascar 2.' I'm Testy the Lion. The franchise moves to Africa, and Bernie Mac is also in the film. I loved working… — Tom Lister, Jr Copy Share Image
There's a place in Botswana where there are 100,000 elephants living in a single population. Think of the amount of space they need. Remember,… — Patrick Bergin Copy Share Image
If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
In Africa, animals and the natural landscape allow local communities to support themselves, as there is a constant source of money from tourism. — David Lidington Copy Share Image
My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from Detroit, so I would go back and forth to Africa a lot. — Sam Richardson Copy Share Image
I've never been invited to do an exhibition or do a talk in England, except once, about 10 years ago. I've given talks all… — Brian Wildsmith Copy Share Image
I represent my country, but I also represent the continent of Africa when I play in Europe. That's why it's important to try to… — Yaya Toure Copy Share Image
What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new breed of… — Chris Hani Copy Share Image
