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The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--And Unmaking--Of the World's Greatest Soccer Club QUOTES

The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--And Unmaking--Of the World's Greatest Soccer Club QUOTES

1 " Basilevitch persuaded Cruyff to let him invest his hard-earned money in a variety of ventures, the most disastrous of which was a pig farm.70 Looking back in 2015, the victim laughed at himself: “Who could imagine that Johan Cruyff had gone into pig-rearing? I ended up saying to myself, ‘Ditch the pigs. Your thing is football.’ ”71 "

― Simon Kuper , The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--And Unmaking--Of the World's Greatest Soccer Club

2 " He once said that before he was thirty, he had done everything on instinct. After thirty he began to understand why he did the things he did. "

― Simon Kuper , The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--And Unmaking--Of the World's Greatest Soccer Club