Quotes on football from Aleksandar Ranković:
“The most thing are the players. You can be [an] amazing coach, in terms of [making] great exercise on the pitch or great PowerPoint presentation… if you don’t have [relationship] with your players and if you don’t really understand them — not only as a player but as a person — you’re done.”
“My philosophy is always — I know it’s going to sound like a cliché — but I don’t want to concede any goal. That is the number one philosophy: no goal first.”
“For me, the most attractive football is when I win. That’s number one. That’s the bottom line. If I can win five, six, seven zero with beautiful football, great; if i can win with one set piece, one zero, same.”
“I had [an] excellent relationship with my players… that’s maybe my strength as a coach. I always have good relationship — in a good way, respectful way. Of course, I’m the coach, they are the players… I don’t treat them like kids.”