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🗣️ RONALDO: "George Weah, Marco van Basten, Paolo Maldini. These were the guys I played with back then in Europe. The best of all time. I needed to stand out too. I became bold, let’s say. I set goals for myself and went out to achieve them. And I made sure people knew about those goals. When I went to PSV, I said I would score 30 goals in my first season. So, I scored 30. Then I said I would be the best in the world, and I won the Ballon d'Or. I said I wanted to win a World Cup, and I won it. I’ve always been confident in myself since I was a kid. When I was a child, I thought to myself: 'I’m going to be the best striker of all time.' In the end, my game speaks for itself."

Cristiano Ronaldo's latest goal against Al Riyadh has helped the striker match his Premier League goal tally now in the Saudi Pro League, though he needed less than half the games at Al Nassr.

🚨 CAN INTER MIAMI GO BACK-TO-BACK IN MLS? MLS legend Jozy Altidore explained why he still sees Inter Miami as the favorite to win it all — but warned that nothing is guaranteed. 👀🏆 🗣️ “I think Inter Miami, with everything they’ve had to deal with this summer, are going to start putting it behind them and putting together better performances leading into the playoffs. Football is a funny game. You never say never. Although I think they’re the favorites, anything can happen. We saw Vancouver last year, and we’ve seen them performing very well again this year. So I think anything can still happen.” VIA Bolavip US

🗣️ DIDIER DROGBA: "It was February. I told Juan Mata, who had arrived that season at just 23 years old: 'Maestro, help me win the Champions League.' He told me: 'What are you talking about? Are you asking me that? You are Didier Drogba.' To which I replied: 'Yes, but I’ve been trying to win it for 8 years and haven’t managed to.' 'I know you can help me.' Three months later, we were in the Final in Munich. With 8 minutes left, Bayern scored to make it 1-0. When I was about to kick off from the center, Mata told me: 'Come on Didi. You have to believe. Come on!' Almost crying, I said: 'Believe in what? This is over.' I thought I was going to lose in the last minute, just like it happened to me with Ivory Coast. Last play of the match, last corner kick. The first one for us in the entire game, against 18 corners from Bayern. Goal. Guess who took that corner kick... JUAN MATA."

🗣️ RONALDINHO: “Usually, when I got home from playing football as a kid, my mom was always smiling or happy. But one day I came home and she was crying. Then I saw my brother Roberto. He hugged me and took me to the bathroom so we could be alone. That’s when he told me something I didn’t understand at the time: ‘There was an accident. Dad died.’ “That didn’t make sense. What does that even mean? When is he coming home? How can it be that Dad is gone?” “Dad was the one who always told me, ‘You’re going to play football with creativity.’ He was the one who told me to always play freely — to just play with the ball. He believed in me more than anyone. When my brother Roberto started playing professionally with Grêmio, he would always tell everyone, ‘Roberto is good, but wait until you see his little brother.’ “Dad was a superhero. He loved football so much that after working at the shipyard all week, he’d work as a security guard at Grêmio’s stadium on the weekends. How could it be tha

ALPHONSO DAVIES: "My father called me and said: 'I see you're playing tomorrow against your favourite player.' I just said: 'Yes,' and then we started laughing. We can’t even believe it because he knows I’ve admired Messi for a long time." "When I was a teenager, I was in a football academy. Every Wednesday, we would watch Champions League matches. It was amazing, and now being able to play in the Champions League, against my favourite player, is just incredible. Honestly, I can’t find the words; it's a dream come true."

🗣️ Journalist: “Did you want to be the best?” 🗣️ Zidane: "I always wanted to be the best and I worked for it. I never lacked ambition. But I wasn't the best, that's all. Or even in the Top 5. Ultimately, I may be one of 20." 🗣️ Journalist: “Who would you put in the top 5, then?” 🗣️ Zidane: "I'll put more (laughs): Maradona, Pelé, Cruyff, Di Stefano, Platini, Messi, the two Ronaldos, and... Francescoli." Zizou's humbleness ❤️

Ivan Rakitic 🗣️ : "When Messi and Mourinho met in 2017 in preparation for this season, he hugged him tightly and I heard him say to him, "Messi, I don't want you to grow old, please stay young." Then he turned to his assistant and said, "This guy made me think all night about how to stop him, it didn't work. He's the best there, he's really extraordinary, but yesterday I slept soundly because I was sure I wouldn't find a way to stop him. On the other hand, it's a friendly match today (laughs). Messi asked him about his experience in the English Premier League and how to play there, and the last words Mourinho said to Messi were, "Don't go to the English Premier League now until I leave (laughs). You can play wherever you want, you're Messi." In fact, I didn't expect all these awards from Mourinho, who did everything to stop Messi, even if he was injured. But Messi was able to earn everyone's respect and love just by being quiet and talking with his feet.

🗣️ CARLOS TÉVEZ: “When I arrived in England, they took me to see the house the club was offering me. It had a garden, a garage, shiny floors... and silence. A lot of silence. I came from Fuerte Apache, where five of us slept in one room and gunshots were part of the night. I didn’t know how to live in tranquility. It scared me. After a while, I asked to move. I went to a poorer, noisier neighborhood, where the neighbors shouted, cooked on the sidewalk, and kids played in the street. That’s where I felt at home. Not all of us dream of the same things. Some of us dream of going back to what we are.”

🗣️ CARLOS TÉVEZ: “After the final we lost with Manchester United against Barcelona in Rome, a plane was waiting to take me to Abu Dhabi with my family. When we arrived, there was a red carpet, pure luxury, food, drinks… We got to the hotel, and the next day we went to the house of the sheikh who owned City. We passed a massive wall that looked like it separated the U.S. from Mexico, and about ten blocks in, there was the big house. That mansion had a swimming pool, everything was made of glass, and it was covered… “Outside, there was sand and an artificial lake with a yacht inside. Then the guy shows up—tall, fully covered. He greeted me in English, and that’s where we closed the deal. He promised me that as long as he was the owner, I would be the highest-paid player on the team. ‘Every one of my family members has their own club,’ he told me. The clubs were like toys to them. And after all that, I managed to win the league for the club after 51 years.”