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For me, the goal is to make the most of each player, play them in the position they feel best in. And then repeat, repeat, repeat.
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It's hard to evolve when you only have fifteen days or three weeks to practice and correct and change tactics.
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At the highest level, if you don't have a solid defensive base, you can't get by. In one match, yes. But over a whole competition? No.
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In football, you don't hold on to the ball just to hold on to the ball. When you have it you need to be dangerous, create opportunities and score goals. And when you don't, you make sure the opposition doesn't.
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We can't really look back and see what is in the rear-view mirror. This is not how you are going to move forward.
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He might not be very tall, but he's very useful. Kante wins balls, has great transition play, can be found everywhere, and always has solutions.
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It is up to the players and their advisers to see what is best for the player.
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Each member of the team must feel important - everyone must make my life and choices difficult.
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That's what international football is all about - be able to bounce after a bad performance.
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There are a lot of things you can practise to unsettle teams that defend deep.
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My past as a player is strongly linked to the red, white and blue France shirt.
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When there are hard times, the trend is to question yourself and to dig deep but when things go well you shouldn't relax and think things come easy or you need to put in less effort.
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Players like me, we did something of a thankless job. You don't show a hard tackle or stripping someone of possession in slow motion on the big screen. But if you add it all up, I was always the one that the coaches wrote down automatically on the lineup card.
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I've always hated to lose and I continue to hate it. But I've been obliged to accept it because I also have had some crushing defeats.
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My players need to have the feeling that they've pushed themselves to their limits.
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When you go to a club abroad and play against one from your own country, you are part of the enemy.
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We arrived at the 2002 World Cup with two titles, very calm, well organised, maybe missing a bit of concentration. But the only truth is on the pitch. The dangers are there.
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When you make your final list for the World Cup or European Championship you don't take the 23 best players, that is for sure.
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There is no worse situation to enter competition than losing the home opener.
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To score three goals and not concede any is always interesting for a coach.
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Creativity is making a good pass at the right time... but it can also come from deeper, there should always be a balance.
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Open all the debates that you want, but I think that the players that I select, and in whom I have total confidence, deserve a minimum amount of respect.
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Either a player accepts competition or they say they absolutely need to play. For a player to have an open door, I have to have, at the same position, an element that is just as good or even better.
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You need to have discussions and make sure you guide players towards the collective spirit. It can't be done overnight.
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Nothing is impossible. Lassana Diarra did not play for France for five years and then returned.
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Sometimes you need to encourage them sometimes even to comfort them, let them know I trust them. Sometimes you need to tell the truth, being more aggressive. That's management. I need to put the players in the best possible conditions.
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To be in the France team means they have a number of duties and responsibilities.
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