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When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football. -- Mario Balotelli
I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic. -- Dennis Bergkamp
I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time. -- Michel Patini
In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren't interested in the sex lives of their players. We don't hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football. -- Dennis Bergkamp
You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football. -- Jose Mourinho
I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life. -- Ian Rush
Italian football is great but for me, for the style of player I am, I found it too tactical, too slow. -- Djibril Cisse

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