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Tactics are just a part of football because the players are playing.

People talk about tactics, but when you look at it, tactics are just players. You change things so that the team can get the most out of the skills they have to offer, but you don't go any further than that.

What happens is once you start to understand football, you realise that it's not just about the physical side of the game and chasing after a ball. It's a strategic sport which requires a lot of intelligence. It's a very mental game.

Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

Tactics are so important because everybody has to know what they have to do on the pitch. The relationships and behaviours off the pitch between team-mates have to be as good as possible.

Everything is up to the players and not the tactics. They're just small details that can show you the way to play.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football.