When I see players like him I feel like a small boy again

Everybody is talking about Yoann Gourcuff's goal against PSG:



John Lichfield of The Independent:

"Yoann Gourcuff, a young man with the film-star looks of a Cristiano Ronaldo, the passing skills of a Cesc Fabregas and the unstoppable engine of a Roy Keane, received the ball just inside the Paris St-Germain penalty area. PSG defenders surrounded him. He pirouetted, juggled the ball from foot to foot, slaloming through four defenders, and sent a thunderous toe-poke into the net."

Dugarry:

"That goal was no accident...It showed there was something magical about him. I felt ill when Zidane retired. Watching Gourcuff has cured me. When I see players like him, I feel like a small boy again."

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Pele: Football Needs Children's Love

"There aren't many these days like Kaka and myself. I really dislike seeing players constantly changing clubs and always kissing their new shirts...With things like this, children don't know whether to support a team or a player and we have to remember one thing: without children's love, football will die."

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Drogba Lost the Joy

"For several weeks this summer, I no longer had a head for football. I had completely lost the fire. I no longer wanted to hear talk of targets or ambition,"

"I had absolutely no excitement or adrenaline. I felt completely extinguished. For the first time in my career, I had lost the passion for football. I was lost."

He said that the big factor was the death of his grandmother:

"I felt as if all of my childhood memories were flying away. I felt I had aged brutally."

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Ronaldo overcome by joy

"Cristiano Ronaldo was overcome by joy as he finally got his hands on the prestigious Ballon d'Or trophy in Paris."

''I was 18 when I came to Manchester, very young. I always had great hopes of becoming a great footballer, in Europe and the world and that's what I've always tried to do - to improve year by year...Of course it's not been easy but I don't regret anything that I've done to get here...I always dreamed of lifting this trophy and it's thanks to God that I have it now.''

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Robinho happy to stay home and teach son how to play football

According to Man City's new Brazilian star, Robinho, his 11-month-old boy, Robson junior is...

...the inspiration behind his thumb-sucking goal celebration. They spend their time, says Robinho, "going to the cinema, the theatre, normal things". He has become a regular at the Pau Brasil restaurant in Manchester's Northern District, along with City's other Brazilians, Elano and Jo. Mostly, however, he is happy to "stay at home teaching my son how to play football".

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