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• ‟ Brazilian football has always been very much admired in Japan and, of course, after my participation and so many other Brazilians, it was like they created a new style of play in homage to Brazilian football.

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• ‟ I remember winning the Asian Cup in 2004 in China, coming through so much adversity including a final against the hosts. We won 3-1 and it was a wonderful competition, which we won by playing great football.

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• ‟ Football is a collective sport and many times it doesn't depend on you playing well. It depends if the team is playing well.

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• ‟ Football is a collective game, not an individual game.

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• ‟ When God built Pele, he put everything that a player needs in him. He knew how to shoot, how to dribble, how to head, be physical. He had everything that a football player needs to have. It's difficult for someone to achieve what he has in football.

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• ‟ India has a population of over 1 billion people. There is place for all sports and for sure there is space for football.

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• ‟ Football never surpises me.

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• ‟ Sometimes a team plays very well but doesn't manage to score, while another team comes and scores. But then, that's how football is.

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• ‟ The ISL brought together many football cultures such as Italians, Dutch, French, English and Spanish. There were no Brazilians! I brought something from Brazil, a team of professionals that changed something.

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• ‟ Profit and fame will not develop Indian football. Professionals, technique development, legacy specialists, and experts in football business, will develop India as football country.

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• ‟ I wish I could help in a more substantial way, the football in India in a more global, national way.

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• ‟ With respect to Qatar as a country that wants to grow, you can't have a World Cup in a country that doesn't have football.

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• ‟ I think the difference with Japan was that they didn't bring in too many foreign players. In my opinion at the ISL it's not too good to have too many foreigners playing. The minimum of five Indian players is too less in my opinion. Since it's the ISL, we have to encourage more Indian football.

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• ‟ Football always has pressure.

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• ‟ I am not a magician of football.

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• ‟ When I went to Japan, I was with Kashima Antlers. Very good results were produced with that team as I aimed to develop Japanese football.

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• ‟ In Japan, football has grown but it doesn't mean that baseball has regressed. Baseball also has grown with football.

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• ‟ Arsene Wenger's mentality has been to bring together footballers who bring happiness in our sport, the type of players I like to watch. I've followed him since he was in Japan, and he always was a guardian of the art of football - football with happiness and football played well.

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• ‟ In Japan, when I went there, there was no professionalism at all. But the biggest advantage was that everyone was united and wanted to progress from amateur football to professional.

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• ‟ I've always seen football as a game. You lose or win.

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• ‟ I will never give up on football that is played well.

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