53 Quotes by Thiago Alcantara

I love watching English football. It's the league I most enjoy.

The best thing about having a footballer dad is seeing the game up close. You watch him train, then go home and practice what you've seen in the front room, rearranging the furniture.

The games I enjoy most are the ones I finish exhausted, and with knocks, but having played.

For any dad who has two footballing sons, to have them in a semi-final and know that at least one will reach the final is the best present in the world.

You need to know how to enjoy the victories. In the end, this is a great sport, and it's to be enjoyed.

When I was small, I would sit next to my dad and watch the round-up highlights programme with him, and we would talk about the games. I loved it.

In Italy, they are incredibly competitive. It may be that their game is more defensive, but they defend so well; here in Germany, there is more speed and intensity. In England, they are more direct, very box-to-box.

I arrived in Spain at three years old when my dad played in Valencia. Then we spent a lot of time in Vigo in the northwest part of Spain.

Football has a thing: You have to decide on an action in a moment, and your head has to be fresh for taking that decision in the moment.