Elegant Quote by Olivier Giroud

Shevchenko was always the favourite player for me. He was my idol. When we met, we exchanged shirts and talked for a while. It…

— Edin Dzeko

The opponent I have most admired during my career is Paolo Maldini.

— Javier Zanetti

When I was younger, I saw Moutinho playing, and he was very good.

— Ruben Neves

Frank Lampard was always the player I tried to model myself on. The amount of goals he scored from midfield was incredible. On and…

— Gylfi Sigurdsson

Paolo Maldini is someone I loved at AC Milan and looked up to as a player. I think he had so much about him.…

— John Terry

Shevchenko is the best attacker in Europe. He has a great deal of consistency and he just keeps scoring - which in Italian football…

— Andriy Shevchenko

Didier Drogba, for sure. He was my favourite player after Zinedine Zidane. A great striker.

— Serge Gnabry

I looked up to Cristiano Ronaldo, and then it was always Didier Drogba.

— Romelu Lukaku

I always looked up to Ronaldo, Cristiano Ronaldo because he was for me the ideal footballer. He was at United, he had an unbelievable…

— Andreas Pereira

Beside Ronaldo, I was impressed by Paulo Dybala and Rodrigo Bentancur: both players with an amazing technique.

— Matthijs de Ligt

Paul Pogba - whether you love him or you don't - he's a fabulous player. You've got to get him on the pitch.

— Owen Hargreaves

When I was little, I loved Alessandro Del Piero, who made history with Juventus and the national team. And growing up, once I took…

— Marco Verratti