Youri Djorkaeff
Youri Djorkaeff
Youri Raffi Djorkaeffis a former French international footballer who played as a forward or as an attacking midfielder. With the French national team, Djorkaeff won the 1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000. He is the son of former player Jean Djorkaeff. He currently runs the Youri Djorkaeff Foundation...
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth9 March 1968
CityLyon, France
coach general surprised
Every day is not the same thing here. Turf, no turf, coach, no coach, general manager, no general manager. You can never be surprised here. You must always be ready.
came good hearts zero
At the end it could be zero points. But at the end we put our hearts into it and we came out of it with one good point.
field good guy morning thinking training wants
I'm still thinking like it's my first season. Not that I'm 18 years old but that it's my first season, my first training and my first game. I'm still a guy who wants to play, who wants to go on the field every morning to train and to have a good time.
football guaranteed
Mo guaranteed me some new players, and a kind of football, more offensive. He didn't guarantee me victory, but to try, it was very important to me.
added deserves good great quality team york
I feel we have done good things and have added some quality to the team. It is important to have a better team because I feel that New York deserves to have a great team.
bull exciting help red trying
With Red Bull it is exciting because you can see what they are doing and you feel like they are trying to help the team. For a player, that is very important.
asks learn lots opinion people player pleasant quite watches
There are lots of people who want to learn here, and for a player like me, it's quite pleasant because everyone asks my opinion and watches me and listens,
decided felt last player saw shoot worked
I wanted to shoot it, but at the last minute, I saw Amado and decided to give him the ball. We never worked on that before. It just felt right. I felt he was the right player to have the ball. Amado was in the right place.
exciting hear help last year
It will be exciting and it can make a difference. There were times last year when you could hear our fans, like in New England, but this will be even better. It can only help us.
early match season
There will be goals, it will not be 0-0. It is early in the season but this is a very important match for us and we will play like it is.
everybody game kids takes tonight understand
This kind of victory, everybody takes part in this victory. It's not one or two players, it's all the group. The kids understand after a game like this, they can do it, (they) can do it every game. To me, tonight is this important.
chances good miss shots
It's never good when you miss chances like that. I make those shots in practice. One was a very good chance, but what can you do? When you miss, you have to come right back and try again.
goalkeeper looked played position shot three
I know in this position the goalkeeper will anticipate. I shot very, very hard, ... I'm tired. It's a long day. We played what? Three hours? It looked like we played three hours.
enjoying game good last less passion playing pleasure prefer shape stop sure training
I'm 38 and I'm sure that one day my passion will be less than it is today. I'm sure I'll find less pleasure going through training and I prefer to stop when I'm still happy, still in good shape and still enjoying playing soccer. I don't want to do the last game and to not be able to perform.