Frank Rijkaard
Frank Rijkaard
Franklin Edmundo Rijkaard; born 30 September 1962) is a Dutch football manager and former player. Rijkaard has played for Ajax, Real Zaragoza and Milan, and represented his national side 73 times, scoring 10 goals. In his coaching career, he has been at the helm of the Netherlands national team, Sparta Rotterdam, Barcelona, Galatasaray and the Saudi Arabia national team. Regarded as one of the best defensive midfielders in footballing history, and as one of the best players of his generation,...
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth30 September 1962
CityAmsterdam, Netherlands
I don't know if it was the correct decision or not but what I can say is that it was good to be able to conserve ourselves. We had to a wait a long time before we knew what was happening though, and this wasn't very good.
I didn't think anything about it other than that it was disallowed.
We are starting at zero again, but with confidence. We are out to defend the honour.
We will have bigger games than this and against better opposition and we have to be careful. We cannot afford the luxury of making things more complicated than necessary.
When you are leading 3-1 it's normal to win, but not today. We deserved more, because at 3-2 we still had control of the game.
We played well, the result was good and the players are on form, so you'd say it was a perfect match for us,
We did the job we had to do and I'm very happy to be in the final.
We did the job we had to do.
We didn't play well. I asked the players to up their performance levels at the break. We gave the ball away too easily and when you push up you give the opposition too many chances on the counter if you lose the ball.
Today wasn't our day. We were below par. We have to react and rediscover the form we've shown up to now.
He transmits a lot of joy and pleasure playing the game, and he has individual skills that are of such a high level that everybody in the world adores him.
We are not looking at dealing with the height to stop them from developing their play but rather the formula.
We are not going to change our style and will start the game as we do every game, looking for an early goal. We just have to continue creating chances and the goals will come.
We did everything we could to win on a tricky pitch. We created a lot of opportunities, we showed our talent, but between Bonano and the posts, we just couldn't find a goal.