Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.

Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.

My favorite sports are soccer, hockey and volleyball.

I don't believe in God, in Spain all 22 players cross themselves, if it works the game is always going to be a tie.

You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.