Dimitar Berbatov
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Thank you for having me.
I'm good, I'm good.
Watching this, it's a bit sad because, you know, it's in the past, but you get good memories out of it.
You need to score good, great goals, if you can, of course, if you can.
But I always try to do that and most of the time it's happening.
How can you not miss it?
You play football for 20 years and then it goes like this and all of a sudden you don't do it anymore.
It misses.
It's a big miss but you try to look forward to a new beginning, new stuff and from time to time you watch it and think, yeah, it was good.
Well, I'll be probably someone in the middle screaming to my teammates, go press, and I'll be anticipating the ball where the player is going to pass it.
Because for me, you need to be quick in your brain, first and foremost.
Even if you're slower than your teammates, you still can press if you know how to think and anticipate where the opposition is going to pass the ball.
you can easily move it to one direction and try to anticipate the ball to be there.
You need to be clever, actually.
Yeah, but sometimes it depends on the coach as well.
And some players need good coaches, good managers, to tell them where they are doing the small mistakes that can turn them from good players to great players, you know?
And if you're in a team that needs to high-press, then you need to do it, otherwise you don't play, probably.
Yeah, you know, and this is... Because Ozil is a great player.
And sometimes you're thinking, OK, is the football they're playing, you know, affecting this great guy, this great player, because he's not playing now.
And how do you fix that?