Home Quote by Philipp Lahm

Back in 2005, we lost in the semi-final of the World Cup and that was a great learning curve for the team. It gave…

— Isa Guha

I remember we had a terrible start to the 2002 World Cup, losing to Senegal when we were the reigning world and European champions.

— Marcel Desailly

In 1999, we went into the World Cup with a string of victories behind us but we could not handle the pressure and ended…

— Gareth Thomas

We were thrilled to reach France in 1998 but our failure to make the finals in the U.S.A. in 1994 and South Korea and…

— Ali Daei

That makes me think of the 2002 World Cup Final above all else. Nobody thought at the time that our team would get through…

— Angela Merkel

You think about past World Cups - in 2006, it was a fantastic Brazil team, but we did not do so well that year.…

— Fernandinho

I'm really glad that Italy went out, they were playing boring football. (on Euro 2004)

— Andy Townsend

We won the 1998 World Cup on home soil because we were able to bring out the positive from that pressure.

— Marcel Desailly

Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn't see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we…

— Rio Ferdinand

There are moments where we forgot what got us to where we are now. ... We stopped moving the ball. We know how it…

— Manu Ginobili

In '98, we were not the best team. But after that, we had the anger to prove to the whole world we were the…

— Marcel Desailly

We were in an awkward position against Yugoslavia in that in order to win we needed to score more goals than they did.

— Jose Antonio Camacho