> “Lamine was born for this. He has a daring character. Maybe that \[pressure\] would have overwhelmed you or me. But these guys are special,” he added.
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> “How many times have we asked of a player: ‘How good was that guy, what happened to him? Why didn’t he make it?’ Because you have to be good at football and a thousand things more.
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> “Lamine was 16 \[at the Euros\], 18 now, he puts up with a brutal media pressure and makes very few errors. One minute, one mistake, and the focus is on that; that’s not fair. There are hours, days, with physios, nutritionists, psychologists, coaches … it’s the work, the values.”