Mauricio Pochettino
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And what...
Coming back to what we were talking about in America, the problem is not to create more schools.
It's about to create spaces
to the kids going to play.
Because what I didn't learn from my teachers or from my coaches, what I learned was from my friends when I played.
I played against one that was three or more and bigger than me.
I wanted to take the ball.
I developed my capacity, my emotional intelligence to how to take the ball.
And then...
The grass doesn't exist, I play on the soil.
And this type of thing is what, because that is football.
It's not to build, it's not a factory of two... You play on the streets, basically.
It's where you learn, with the ball.
The ball teach you, it's not the coach that teach you.
And sometimes people that is very rational say, no, if we create this and that and that and that, equal to this, no.
In soccer, in football, sorry, in soccer.
In football, no.
In football, it's not like this.
I saw in some facilities that, because today you go to the, you know, all the training grounds are amazing.
It's like, you know, billiard or pool, you know, unbelievable.