Xabi Alonso: “I was lucky to have a friend in our neighbourhood who was also crazy about football. His name was Mikel. Every day, we were taking our skateboards down to the beach to play tennis, to surf & of course, to play football.”
“This kid, he was maybe even crazier than me about football. He was a little bit younger than me & my friends - just a few months maybe, but you know how you always push your ‘little friends’ at that age? Well, we tried, but he was a competitive monster.”
“He wanted to win so badly, even if it was just a game on the beach. It was a love for the game that you cannot teach. You are born with it, I think. It bonded us very closely & it still does, to this day.”
“A few months ago, I got a call from my old friend Mikel & as always, we talked football. He said, ‘We’ve got Bayern Munich in the Champions League this week, what do you think?’. And I said, ‘We’ve got West Ham, what do you think?’.”
“If you would have told us back then that we would be managing Arsenal & Leverkusen in 30 years, I think we would have been very happy & very shocked. Of course, we probably would have said, ‘Wait, we made it as players first, right? OK, thank God. Just making sure…’”
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@SanDimas1988 FCU is willing to move to other leagues in order to continue to compete and bring soccer to Rochester even if it means dropping to a lower league. Unlike others
Want to win this obscenely rare 1998 championship t-shirt? Like and retweet this trivia, and answer this question: Which head coach did we beat in the @usopencup in 1999 and 2005? He later became quite famous, so tell me:
1) Coach's name
2) 1999 team
3) 2005 team
@PatSheridan03 The main argument coming from the Tour was the tradition of it and how they have stuck with the same style of play for years and year. Now they seem to be flinching first to LIV and I hope the audience doesn’t suffer.