Defenders Quote by Marcos Alonso Download Open image “It's like after uni when you go to do a master's. Italy is like that for defenders.” — Marcos Alonso ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defenders Go Italy Like Master
In Italy, you must think faster than defenders. It is a tough school. — Paulo Dybala Copy Share Image
From a player's point of view, you can learn a lot in Italy tactically. — Antonio Rudiger Copy Share Image
It's a big challenge for a defender to prove yourself in a country like Italy as a non-Italian. — Matthijs de Ligt Copy Share Image
The defenders in Italy are stronger, and that makes me better. Serie A is played in a different way to other leagues. — Gonzalo Higuain Copy Share Image
I've become accustomed to playing against four defenders throughout my career, but in Italy, I have to play against five. — Gonzalo Higuain Copy Share Image
As a defender it can also be more frustrating to play in Italy because referees do not tolerate too much physical contact. I loved… — Jaap Stam Copy Share Image
In Italy they ask a lot of defenders. It's not possible to make a mistake. They're hard on them. — Matthijs de Ligt Copy Share Image
I think, in general, the coaches in Italy are much more tactical; that's just how the league works. — Wojciech Szczesny Copy Share Image
I've turned into a full-back who pushes forwards whereas in Italy usually the full-back concentrates more on defending. — Ciro Immobile Copy Share Image
It's always like that with Italian teams, they're competitive, they know what they want and they know how to get it. — Sergio Busquets Copy Share Image
The one thing I learnt going to Italy was there's no real change in how the game should be played, but how players look… — Graeme Souness 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
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
To win games sometimes I need to get more in attack, and sometimes I need to defend more, but the main thing is to… — Marcos Alonso Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
I wanted to play in New York when I was in my prime and I was young, fierce, lock-down [defender]. Madison Square Garden, that… — Metta World Peace Copy Share Image
I have scored against every team, every country, every defender in the world. — Romario Copy Share Image
Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
It is clear that the future of freedom and peace depend on the actions of America. This nation is freedom's home, and freedom's defender. We welcome this charge of history, and we are keeping it. (Applause.) The war on terror continues. The enemies of freedom are not idle, and neither are we. This country will not rest, we will not… — George W. Bush Copy Share
I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
I used to be a die-hard defender of physical film, which I still am. I love shooting on physical film and I think it's… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
Like the panic stricken populace of 'The War of the Worlds' and countless other 1950s invasion movies, the victims are there to provide the human ground over which monster and expert, threat and defender, disordering and ordering impulses can battle it out. Second-class citizens of the genre, they are narratively indispensable because physically entirely disposable. We are only really involved… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share
Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share
Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
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