Wiel Coerver’s Impact on Coaches
L-R: Wiel Coerver, Gary Ireland, Simon Ireland (below), Michel Mommertz (3rd from right).
"Wiel Coerver is one of the finest teachers of technique I've ever come across in football. We need highly adept players, people who can dribble and go past people. Dribbling is a lost art. We've lost some of the goodness in football"
Sir Bobby Robson
“I definitely think it [Wiel Coerver’s material and methodology] has been overlooked. Wiel Coerver was absolutely cursed by our federation, they absolutely denied him and that was stupid. If you look at the world today, kids are not playing outside any more so the technical development of our kids has stopped on the streets. We have to give them the opportunity to develop individually and that is why you need specialists to do that. When I was a young kid I played on the streets and I saw a bigger kid outplay a kid with a stepover and that is what I wanted to do so I started practising it in the backyard to get that move. If the kids don't play outside any more then they don't have that example any more so we have to give them that example and that opportunity in training sessions. At senior level, the team is the goal. In the academy, the team is the second thing. The individual is most important.
“We worked with a 34-year-old left-back at NEC Nijmegen. Every session I had 45 minutes of skills work with him every single day of the week. The one session before the game was a little shorter but we still had a skills session. If you look at his improvement in his confidence on the ball just from these skill sessions. The better that your skills are, the more confident you are on the ball. The more confident you are, the better your decisions will be in the game, for sure.”
Jefta Bresser, De Graafschap (Sky Sports)
“Coerver’s innovative coaching techniques have since spread around the world, and influenced the game at all levels, from the top professional leagues all the way down to the school yard. Yet Robben perhaps remains his most famous graduate.”
"When former Holland, Bayern, Real Madrid star Arjen Robben arrived at Chelsea FC at the age of just 20 he carried on his shoulders a huge weight of expectation. Fresh from a trailblazing 4 year spell with Groningen and PSV Eindhoven in his native country, the winger had already been marked as one destined for greatness. By the time he left Chelsea he had become one of football’s biggest names, and perhaps the defining ‘inside-out’ winger of his generation. The origins of Robben’s unique quick-footed and pacy attacking play can be traced back to his early training as a youngster in his home town of Bedum under the guidance of a forgotten hero of Dutch football Wiel Coerver (Joe Sharratt)
Simon Ireland (left) & Michel Mommertz (right), New York 1988.
Gary and Simon Ireland
Assistants to Wiel Coerver, Al Wasl (Dubai); Co-founders of Academy Soccer, World Soccer Inc., PSV Union FC, Soccerbook Consulting, Dynamic Soccer and technical trainers and coaches for players of all ages and levels (30 years)
”When Wiel Coerver and I were doing a camp in New York and Lake Placid, we met brothers Simon and Gary Ireland, two talented, energetic, passionate guys from England and Australia considering playing college soccer. We asked them to join us in the clinics and camps to help us after they won the Soccer America tournament. It turned out that they were very eager to learn and inexhaustibly made practice hours on the material and they understood immediately what the Wiel Coerver methodology was about. Wiel and I were very fond of Simon and Gary not only for their abilities but also as people! We decided to offer them an opportunity to be our assistants at Al Wasl F.C. in Dubai and to further learn the methodology. Fantastic achievements they have made and great ambassadors for the Wiel Coerver philosophy!”
Michel Mommertz
Assistant to Wiel Coerver for 20 years. Main assistant to Wiel and co-creator of much of Wiel's material as well as lead demonstrator.
“Gary and Simon [Ireland]’s ambitious and attractive coaching program helps players develop the highest level of technical and tactical skills and creative ability with strong motivation and psychological emphasis. I have to underline that working with them during my stay at their camps in USA I always admired and appreciated their Coerver abilities & skills. Their demonstrations were always brilliant!"
Dr. Zdenek Sivek
Chairman of official magazine Union of Czech Football Coaches 'Fotbal A Trenink,' ex-Technical Director of Czech Republic Football Association, Vice President European Union of Football Coaches (AEFCA) & UEFA/FIFA technical advisor.
“My time with Wiel and Michel reinforced my belief that all the core elements of football and all the fundamental actions are universal. Wiel's material was not about ‘reinventing’ football, or telling people what to do - it was about cataloging the potential actions, improving the ability individual decision making, improving the comfort of possession, providing materials that could be isolated and taught as foundational movements and interactions in the ball, and the relevant associated off the ball movements. It's a philosophy that equips players with the skill set to the needs of a game in any position. The game which can be enjoyed so much more if my understanding of the ball is mastered and a game that is beautiful to watch. It is for me, human art form. Wiel's material generates confidence in others who seek you out more because of the the improvements it makes to your ball mastery and command. You become a ‘go to’ player..a difference maker..a game changer..I believed players around me wanted me to have the ball because of my ability on the ball"
Simon Ireland
Simon trained under Wiel and demonstrated the materials in New York. In 1988 he was hired by Wiel to assist him in Dubai. Simon was one of the top young players in NZ, Australia and in England at Chelsea and was offered multiple US college scholarships and MLS contracts. He was voted Soccer America player of the Lake Placid international indoor tournament and was selected to play for Queensland Men’s State Team.
"I became addicted to the real Wiel Coerver material after working with and living alongside Gary and Simon Ireland. The way they showed the details of the moves to players was very special. I gradually became a better player myself just by learning and implementing the steps of different drills of Wiel Coerver shown by Gary and Simon. I started enjoying football trainings in a different way. I was able to improve on my weaker foot by executing Wiel Coerver ball work numerous times every day with both feet. I became much more comfortable taking my eyes off the ball prior to receiving it, the importance of how to shield the ball & key points of using the arms, having perfect balance, shifting bodyweight from one foot onto the other in the right time and feel the opponent, to keep opponent distant from the ball and not to lose it while making the necessary movements to continue the game efficiently"
Peter Horvath
Puskas Academy Technical Director; former Assistant Manager Puskas Academy, Hungary
"I remember your [Gary Ireland’s] link to Wiel Coerver which was at a time when his work was being recognized internationally. There was the chance that you could influence our coaching ideas because you were his assistant but more because of your overall different experiences that would challenge our ways. I met Wiel a few times at Lilleshall (F.A Center of Coaching)and wanted to know more. Your experience with Wiel helped. I always liked to challenge our coaches to think differently. You helped our coaches and hopefully they helped you. Our Academy coaches use Coerver-like practices for individual ball manipulation work which allows players the ability to choose and perform the required technique when the game situation demands it. Because techniques and creativity take a long time to develop and needs years of repetition, we use small sided games to practice the exercises allowing players' to experiment which gives them confidence and personality. There are stages of development towards the game situation and the Coerver-like material can help towards that goal, particularly in the early, younger stages"
John Owens
Liverpool FC Assistant Academy Director & Manager; hired Gary Ireland to coach at Liverpool FC in 2002-2003
"I have absolutely high opinion of Coerver model of coaching. More than 20 years ago I participated in one of their programs in Serbia. It was an eye opening experience for me. This approach showed me how much a player can improve his skills by repeating certain moves with a ball individually. Absolutely amazing. I loved it. A lot of useful football moves, helping players to reach their highest potential. As a young coach, at that time, I kept that in mind and have been applying some of those techniques ever since, which has proved very useful. Even today at the highest level of this profession I use some of those exercises in my training sessions during warm up"
Marijo Tot
Croatian professional coach in China, Malaysia, Bosnia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Croatia; League Champion coach of Dinamo Zagreb; Iran National Team Assistant Coach (qualified the team for the 2022 FIFA World Cup Finals); Assistant to Slaven Bilic at Al Ittihad Al in Saudi Arabia; current guest lecturer UEFA & Pro & A License courses; Croatian Football Federation; Former Manager Croatia Women’s National Team
"Mike Cockerill introduced me to you guys and David Lee & I spoke about you guys. I do remember you guys doing stuff with David and him liking you. He was impressed with your work ethic, enthusiasm, love for the game & thought you had potential as coaches"
Bernie Mandic
Manager of Leeds United and Australia stars Harry Kewell and Mark Viduka
"The NSWSF (New South Wales Soccer Federation) adopted the Coerver method after we exposed it many years ago. You'll be pleased to know that many top players have been produced by the method in those years, Harry Kewell of Leeds and the new Aussie sensation Brett Emerton among them. NSWSF Director of Coaching David Lee- recognised the beauty of the Coerver method. You [Gary and Simon Ireland] can give yourselves a big pat on the back" [Dec 26, 1998]
Les Murray
SBS TV; Legendary Australian Football Announcer and Producer
"The teaching and methods of Mr. Coerver have always been of a great interest to me in further developing my football and for self improvement of my teaching. Working with Gary Ireland, Carine Ireland & also through Pepijn Lijnders helped me further develop my knowledge and ability about Coerver’s work. Also following the work of Ricardo Moniz and speaking him for numerous times has instilled me the inspiration for Mr. Coerver and his teachings. While I have never met Mr. Coerver himself in person, I would say I have met him in spirit. His spirit that was so strong felt when I met people who where daily involved with him. In my journey of growing my understanding of teaching children this great game (and frankly speaking just living our dreams to enrich our communities around with football), I have been blessed to cross paths with people all around the world who all are the most passionate people that I have ever met in this game. I can’t tell you about the numerous amounts that I received the feeling (being around or halve way across the world on the phone, with some of the Coerver adapts) to just go out on the streets with a bag of balls and master my craft or nowadays to inspire my own community with that great hunger and never ending self improvement. These are just some of the qualities that I have felt. Discipline, love for the ball, leadership, creativity and a sense of responsibility to teach our great game in the best way it has meant to be: for the children and the game!"
Hemmet El Ouassidi
Current Sharjah FC Lead Development Coach for U21 & U18 in United Arab Emirates; Player Development Coach for 2nd team, U19 & U17 Al Ain Dubai; individual skills & development coach (GSA (General Sports Authority), Saudi Government); Hemmet is originally from the Netherlands
“I was fortunate enough to be shown and taught extensively by Gary and Simon [Ireland] the material they learned from Wiel Coerver and it revealed a whole new aspect of the game that I had never before imagined. They not only had a deep understanding of Coerver’s material but shared in his philosophy for educating players. It influenced not only the player I would emerge into but the coach and teacher. I benefited from being part of their journey of improvising the material and saw them firsthand create their own unique variation of the original material, which I contributed to.
“I was also fortunate to meet Wiel himself when we visited him and his wife in Kerkrade. Additionally, I worked alongside Peter Horvath (an advocate of Wiel Coerver's work in Hungary) who studied under Simon and Gary and eventually coached with them and were teammates of theirs.
“Although my immersion in Coerver’s brilliant material came later, as a collegiate and senior level player, it was still extremely pivotal in my education and my career. I was fascinated and determined to learn the material; how could anyone not be excited and hungry to learn how to master the ball through the extraordinarily insightful and clever methods of Coerver’s teaching? The incredible things that I saw executed by the best players in the world and at the highest levels of the game, all of a sudden became things that I, or any other person with a keen interest, could access and learn - all because of Coerver’s ingenious methodology.
“What Coerver revealed with his unique way of teaching, was what was possible to do with the ball, so the game became not only magical, but perhaps more importantly, attainable. The greatest players in the world could use his methods and benefit from them, but so could the youngest novice, or any level of player. It was as if someone had given me the key to unlock a whole new dimension of football and my relationship with the game became cemented forever.
“I subsequently spent many years learning, working, repeating, and honing my knowledge and ability to execute these techniques. It improved my balance, coordination, dexterity, confidence and comfort on the ball an incredible amount. The ball mastery and manipulation improved my touch, movement and vision, resulting in me also becoming a better passer of the ball. What I learned became the cornerstone of the way I coach young players. I ended up demonstrating this material to all levels of players from beginners to college and international players over a 20 year period on a daily basis.
“As a coach and teacher of young players in their formative years, it is one of my greatest joys to guide players on their journey of self-discovery and help them grow through the game. The ones who are fascinated by the ball and the material watch in wonder and with singular focus because they, too, have been lured into the magic of the game by Wiel Coerver.”
Carine Ireland
Co-founder, technical trainer and general manager at Peninsula Silicon Valley Union FC (girls’ youth soccer club); co-founder and director of Dynamic Soccer (technical training and clinics); played Liverpool FC Ladies in England, SF Nighthawks, Bay Area Breeze (WPSL), Stanford. Carine has extensively mentored and trained hundreds of youth players to college and national teams of USA, Mexico, Israel etc.
Ricardo Moniz
Current Zalaegerszeg Manager; Former Feyenoord Youth Coach (trained Van Persie); PSV Eindhoven Academy Technical Head, Tottenham Hotspurs 1st team & Youth Academy Technical Coach; Red Bull Salzburg Academy Head; Hamburg Head Coach. Assistant to Wiel Coerver in Abu Dhabi in 1996 at Al Wahda. From 2005 until 2008 Moniz’s position at Spurs was that of skills coach under Martin Jol. Moniz’s job was to polish the skills of the first team players and help improve those of the younger players coming through, in the manner of Rene Meulensteen at Manchester United. Young players he helped were Gareth Bale and Aaron Lennon. As a result of Moniz’s work, Spurs, at their most threatening (under Harry Redknapp), focused much of their play in the wide areas.
"Wiel Coerver was nicknamed the Einstein of football.” (Moniz)
”Wiel became my teacher" (Moniz)
"Wiel was a father figure. Cruyff spoke of Wiel Coerver just before his death. That’s the basic of all (individual ball mastery). Cruyff played in street. couldn't fall He had to balance against bigger guys. Practiced against wall left and right. He said even natural players need program like Coerver. I wanted to do with power and speed- 3 v 3 half field" (Moniz)
According to 'Voetbal International', after Moniz won the National Cup and League title in Austria with Red Bull Salzburg he said “This is a dream come true.... I dedicate this doubly to Wiel Coerver. He has been my teacher. Wiel always said: 'You must continue my work.' That is also why this success is very important. In tribute to Mr. Coerver. He was a team trainer and not a technique trainer, as everyone thinks.”
"Coerver has been unfairly stigmatized and ridiculed," says Moniz. “He was way ahead of his time. Not only technically and tactically, but also mentally. Cultivating a winners and survival mindset was part of his method. Dutch football has been sleeping in recent years" (2014 source)
“Coerver was an idealist. Four zero, five zero. This is what football needs. Stadiums are empty. What does it mean and why is it? Coerver, there is a story behind this .....No one really cares, no one asks what these legends really did. It's important and because we don't live forever, it's necessary to write it down for future generations. It's actually also about Johann Cruyff's legacy. Now football is full of self-righteous egos where everyone thinks they are better than the other, but what is really left? Where is the new Maradona? Where is the new Pele? Where is the new Beckenbauer? New Barresi? Where are they? Did you see the World Cup in Russia, how it was played? Just look at those results and how they were achieved. One zero, zero zero, zero.
“Coerver's method should be applied mainly so that people after us will be great footballers, so that children want to be footballers.
“The message he actually left was: 'There are 99% of players who do not have talent from God. Maradona, Pelé, Di Stéfano, you had it. But the 99% can reach the top with this method'. That is his message. Via training, self-discipline, by training each other, by using a system. And that system is revolutionary, based on expansiveness, talent, self-confidence, self-initiative. This message has not always been heard in my own country.
“He left everything to me... I was often in contact with him. He had a flair for coaching. They used his name commercially for a lot of money. But they only used five percent of his real methods and his Einsteinian philosophies, and that literally destroys me. When I see that his name is not mentioned, that what he had, what he did and what he knew is not said, that even in my country it is not known... In fact, even before he died, he said that people still do not understand him.
“But you have to train that yourself, without the coach looking at you. Left foot, right foot, against the wall, practice sprinting, heading, volleying... But what is the reality? What is organized through coaches, through teachers, where is the street football that doesn't exist anywhere anymore? Coerver left it all to us, but when you mention his legacy somewhere, you meet resistance because you are considered extreme. Training four to five hours a day... But why not? Cristiano Ronaldo does it like this he also does, works with these methods. And he is and will be the best. So, when it comes to Coerver I owe him a lot. Football owes him a lot” (source)
In the late 90's Moniz coached at the Feyenoord youth academy. "Great time. We trained twice as much as Ajax and that is why we went over them.” According to him, the youth academy is also the key to Feyenoord's future. “How will Feyenoord become number one and leading again? Make hours. Four hours a day if it's up to me. Robin van Persie also trained twice a day. Why do you think it turned out so well? Robin made it as a youth player through his drive and self-reliance. In my opinion, fifty percent of your team should consist of young people. Barcelona under Johan Cruijff also won the European Cup with a team full of their own youth. That's how it should be. Then you create capital and you get a bond with the public" (Moniz) (source)
"I was a big fan of his from day one.”
Feyenoord player Robin van Persie is full of praise for Ricardo Moniz, with whom he worked in youth and with whom he still has regular contact. (source)
"He was a good coach and someone I worked a lot with at Tottenham; the lads liked him a lot. He worked mainly with wingers and midfielders, he was a great coach and the guys loved him. I have always had only the best things to say about him, and I am sure that his players love him because that is the type of person he is” (source)
Former Fulham, Liverpool, Spurs, England player Danny Murphy commenting on Ricardo Moniz. Danny Murphy worked with the Dutchman prior to joining Fulham in August 2007 from Tottenham Hotspur FC – where Moniz once again assisted Jol, then the London club's manager – and gave the 45-year-old a glowing character reference.
René Meulensteen
Former Assistant Coach and ‘apprentice’ to Wiel Coerver. Manchester United Assistant Coach & Academy Director under Sir Alex Ferguson. Former Assistant National Team Coach Australia. Head of training at Manchester United; worked with Dutch National Team star Ruud Van Nistelrooy very regularly as well as many other Manchester United players.
Manchester United legendary coach Sir Alex Ferguson commented on René Meulensteen being hired due to his work as Assistant to Wiel Coverer of who he had been a longstanding admirer. This dedication to Coerver's methodology was one of the principal factors in Sir Alex Ferguson bringing Meulensteen to Manchester United. Meulensteen's role at Manchester United was changed to focus specifically on this one-to-one training. Dribbling sessions, working on a particular turn with the players who needed/wanted his time. For example he would talk through individual goals targets with Ronaldo and sharpen up Van Persie and Van Nistelrooy.
"One reason we hired René was because of his knowledge and experience in the Coerver programme," Ferguson explained back in 2006.
"The intention was to improve the technical ability of all the young kids, and of course Wiel Coerver had a tremendous influence on René and I was quite aware of that.”
“That was fine by me. I also used it all the time when I was manager and coach at Aberdeen years ago. I thought it was very important then and I think it's even more important now. It is a great way to improve skills and is necessary for all players not only youth players" (source)
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson commenting on René Meulensteen and the influence Wiel Coerver had on him
"It changed my life and became the foundation of my beliefs in football, including when I was at Manchester United. I was appointed by Alex Ferguson because I was a Coerver coach. He and I feel the Coerver Method is the top way of teaching technical skills" (Meulensteen)
"I picked up a book from a village near where I lived. It changed my life and became the foundation of my beliefs in football, including when I was at Manchester United I decided to get in contact with my hero, Coerver, and ran up a phone bill you would not believe, because he was in Dubai and I was in Holland. Even to this day I have never showed it to my wife! Over time I built up a good relationship with Wiel and in 1993 he asked me to become his assistant with the Qatari F.A. That was a dream. We produced another DVD called 'The Creative Dribbler' and worked with him for four years before I became national Under-16's coach" (Meulensteen)
Piet Hamberg
Al-Ahly (1st Team Coach); Grasshopper Zurich (Youth Academy Global Director; Ricardo Moniz was assistant to Hamberg); Al Dhafra (1st Team Coach); Assistant National Team Manager, Togo; Liverpool FC (Youth Academy Director); Red Bull Salzburg (Assistant to Ricardo Moniz & Scout); ES Sahel (Youth Academy Director); Al Jazira (Assistant Coach); Al-Ittihad (Assistant Coach)
"Coerver's method is the best to improve youth players. It's part of my approach; from one against one we then go in steps to eleven against eleven."The trainer of the team up to 12 years old wants to win in his first job, because then he will make a career. Then defending is the easiest. He locks things up and wins with two counters. That's wrong, because that's not how you train players. The individual then suffers from the collective. I hear it shouting, every week: no risk, play that ball. Cruijff never gave up a ball" (Hamberg)
"We, the adherents and followers of his method, will miss him terribly. It is a great privilege to meet someone as exceptional as Wiel Coerver in your life. In the year 2000, the “Boss” (Wiel Coerver), as I called him out of great respect, came to Zurich to visit Ricardo Moniz and me. We had made all the preparations and put together a training that fully corresponded to the Coerver method. A man who could inspire fantastically, command admiration and went through life as an example. Never before, nor ever since, have I come across a person with such passion and discipline. Always looking for improvement, change, perfection, the essence of top sport. At the end of his life he still went for an hour's walk every morning to keep in shape, with a pencil and a piece of paper in his pocket. Along the way he wrote down a new exercise that he made up while walking. Seven hours a day he was studying, as he called it. Actually, it was more work on the exercises to make them even better. In 1972 I met him for the first time in Nijmegen at NEC where I started, at the age of 18, as a professional football player. He selected a group of young players including Jan Peters, Frans Thijssen and Jan van Deinsen. All players eventually became premier league stars at big clubs and most played for the Dutch national team. The outside world talked about “cutting and turning.” Few people have really understood the essence of Coerver's work…Not that we didn't do that on other days, but just to make sure it couldn't get any better. The “boss” had seen and analyzed the training. He said it wasn't bad, a big compliment in itself… But, he added, it could be 80 percent better. In 2008 the “Boss” came to visit me in Liverpool. He saw the six-year-olds and the drool was pouring out of his mouth. “Piet, believe me, you have gold in your hands”. I can still hear him say it. When I arrived at my office, the old master, who was 83 at the time, opened a green school exercise book with 50 exercises for threes. “Piet, with these exercises everything goes ten times faster than before”. Always better, better than the last time. That passion, possession, that drive, it was still there and it inspired me like never before. On Anfield Road, just before the start of the match when 45,000 people started to sing “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” out of the corner of my eye I saw the great master secretly wiping away a tear with the back of his right hand. Coerver, despite three heart operations, was constantly working on improvement and change. Tough for themselves, sometimes also for others, but always based on honesty and straightforwardness. It was first and foremost about learning to understand the laws of top sport. Getting better every day, investing in yourself, better than the last time. In addition, he trained players who can maintain themselves on the ball in all complex situations and who can an individual action creating a surplus and forcing openings. For more than forty years he worked continuously on his own method to give footballing youth all over the world a better basis on the ball and to make them aware of the fact that investing in yourself always pays off. As a result, he inspired many people who, even though they were not successful in football, were given the obsession to succeed in life. Nowadays many trainers talk about their vision or their philosophy. We have all done what humans do best, and that is "imitating". Coerver was, as one of the few, completely authentic. The self-taught" (Hamberg)
From Lymburg TV prior to moving from PSV to Porto. "Pepijn Lijnders from Broekhuizen will be the new technique trainer of FC Porto. The 24-y.o Lijnders still works at PSV, where he was a youth trainer for five years. Lijnders will train all youth teams at FC Porto, plus the second team. His training is based on the Coerver method, which he further developed at PSV"
Pepijn Lijnders
Pepijn is currently Assistant Coach to Juergen Klopp at Liverpool FC. He runs 1st team trainings and trains Salah, Alexander-Arnold, Van Dyke and teammates while overseeing the integration of players from the youth academy into the 1st team squad.
Lijnders’ early quotes indicate Coerver's influence on his work and how he took inspiration from Wiel. While he didn’t work directly with his idol Wiel and assistant Michel Mommertz, he worked under Ricardo Moniz from 2002-2006 as a Technical Coach at PSV Eindhoven, helping with youth training and individual player development. From 2006-2014 he moved FC Porto Academy as Technical Director where he led the development of youth before moving to Liverpool FC Academy.
"I was totally obsessed with the work of Coerver. I could not wish for a better mentor (Ricardo Moniz) to further develop myself as a trainer in the Coerver-philosophy"
"Since I came in contact with the profession of coaching, I have specialized in the development of talent. Already in the beginning stage, I was totally obsessed with the work of Coerver. Everything started moving fast when I got the opportunity to do an internship at PSV. In my second year, Ricardo Moniz became the skills trainer at the club. I could not wish for a better mentor to further develop myself as a trainer in the Coerver-philosophy. He has meant a lot for PSV and for all the talents. From the first day Ricardo came to work for PSV as a skills trainer, I assisted him at all training sessions. During these training sessions, I trained especially for myself. Furthermore I trained a minimum of two hours extra on all movements, combinations, and variations at home per day to perfect my skills with both feet. The advantage of this is that I now know what it takes to develop as a creative player" (Lijnders)
“I liked Pepijn's way of categorizing skills into Zidane’s vs. Ronaldo’s and I also liked Ricardo Moniz’s expression 'Zidane vs Maradona' because it highlights the fact that due to physical qualities there are different scenarios one can apply skills to. Pepijn and I worked together briefly and I was impressed with his approach.” (Gary Ireland)
