Adversity Quote by Marcos Alonso Download Open image “I was 11 or 12 when I had my trial with Real Madrid.” — Marcos Alonso ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adversity Had Madrid Real Real madrid Trial
When I went to Real Madrid, I was only 18 or 19 years old. It was my first year as a professional footballer. I… — Fabinho Copy Share Image
When I was 18, I had a trial at Benfica, when Sven-Goran Eriksson was the manager. Then, at 21, I was working for a… — Henrik Larsson Copy Share Image
I was 14 when I arrived at Real Sociedad. No team wanted me in France. I trialled for around eight clubs, and then Real came. — Antoine Griezmann Copy Share Image
I was only 15 when I left Barcelona to do my own thing. Luckily, after some years, they have signed me again. — Jordi Alba Copy Share Image
When I was 10 I started playing for Atletico Mineiro and that was the start of my professional career. — Fred Copy Share Image
With hindsight, if you want to play for Real Madrid, sacrifices need to be made but I was too young to understand. There are… — Nicolas Anelka Copy Share Image
I was probably 13 or 14 when I realised I had a chance to make it. That's when I realised that a bit of… — Trent Alexander-Arnold Copy Share Image
When I was 17 Sevilla came for me. At 18 Valencia, at 19 Villareal before Barcelona. — Davinson Sanchez Copy Share Image
Before Bolton I played for Real Madrid and I was getting involved in the first-team training since I was 16 and then I played… — Marcos Alonso Copy Share Image
When you are a kid, you aren't mature and you want to get up and play every week. — Marcos Alonso Copy Share Image
My father is a massive Barcelona and Atletico fan because he used to play in those teams. — Marcos Alonso Copy Share Image
People were used to see me in a 3-5-2 because in Fiorentina that was also where I played. But the hard thing was to… — Marcos Alonso Copy Share Image
Wherever the team needs me to help I will try to do my best, and it's good to be able to play in more… — Marcos Alonso Copy Share Image
Every season with Chelsea, we have to fight for every competition and every game and we will go for it. — Marcos Alonso Copy Share Image
I had some other offers from other teams from Italy and Spain but when Chelsea came to get me, I did not think twice. — Marcos Alonso Copy Share Image
Football is like this. The better the team you play for, the more fans follow you and there are millions of coaches and managers… — Marcos Alonso Copy Share Image
It's like after uni when you go to do a master's. Italy is like that for defenders. — Marcos Alonso Copy Share Image
All you can do is keep working hard, keep training and try to be ready for when the chance comes. — Marcos Alonso Copy Share Image
We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East. — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
“The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or one such threat, but it was… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Friction is necessary. Ease of life leads to complacency and the atrophy of the human will and spirit. Within our struggles lives our strength,… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“Every adversity is just another opportunity to excel a little more.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“Just because she doesn't talk about it, doesn't mean she isn't feeling it. She hurts, but she won't wear it on her sleeve. She… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. — James Buckham Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Struggles are not associated to a particular people or creed, everyone struggles, not for the same reasons, but each has a personal struggle at… — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
