“The work and the results stand for themselves. In the U.S., I don’t think we got enough credit. Our subtle ideas, how we were hard to play against, how we closed down, how we createdchances, our movement, our identity, how we were improving in those years. Many people didn’t see that. Some people just missed out on what our football was about.”

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