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" A team is constructed with time and automatismos, habits, mechanisms. "
Team
Constructed
Time
" At the start, it was a bit difficult to come to Chelsea, a new club in a new league with very good players. It was very difficult to get into the team, but I did a lot of things to try and settle quick into the club, the team, the area. "
Good
Try
Team
" Cesar's not even that hard. But I suppose Azpilicueta is. Some said my name was too difficult to pronounce and could they call me Dave. It's stuck. It's also done affectionately. "
Name
Me
Hard
" I always learnt that to play well, you have to train hard, so every time I go on the training pitch, I try to give my best and to improve. "
Training
You
Best
" I certainly feel appreciated at Chelsea. "
Feel
Appreciated
Certainly
" I'm a defender, and my first job is to make the team secure at the back; that's my primary responsibility. "
Responsibility
Back
First
" It is always interesting to play against a team that has many of the best players in the world. "
Best
Interesting
Play
" It's flattering to be linked to Barcelona: it means you're playing well. "
Barcelona
You
Well
" I've had five managers, and I've played with all of them. "
Managers
Played
Them
" I've never run with the bulls. I prefer to watch from the safety of a balcony. "
Safety
Balcony
Never
" I watched Felipe Luis a lot of times. I played against him in Spain. I know he is a very good player. "
Know
Him
He
" No one likes a change of coach. "
Change
Coach
Likes
" Often in Spain you're winning 2-0, there are 15 minutes left, and it's as good as over. You control it, and the tempo drops. In England, that doesn't happen. They put another striker on, long balls into the area, free-kicks, corners. They push you back. "
Control
Good
Push
" People see the nice side of the game, but behind it all, there is a sacrifice that they don't see: the pressure, the repercussion, the way that impinges on your life. "
Sacrifice
See
Game
" Since I was a kid, even in school I gave my best, playing with my friends, 100 per cent sweating, fighting. When I was playing any game, even video games, I wanted to win. "
Best
Fighting
Kid
" Sometimes, on holiday for a few days, I would rest, but I couldn't sit for long. I had to go to the gym to run. To get myself fit. I need to do something. Sometimes my wife would get annoyed and say, 'Come on, we are on holidays,' but she knows what I am like. "
Run
Wife
Rest
" Sometimes people say to me, 'Ah, you're not really Spanish; you're British.' "
People
Sometimes
You
" The Premier League benefits from foreigners, and the game's evolved in a way that's beneficial, but you can't lose the roots of the English game. "
Benefits
Way
Roots
" When I was a kid, I was a striker. Then, I started to be a winger and defender sometimes. "
Then
Defender
Kid
" When you get lots of players up front, sometimes a counter-attack can take you by surprise and lead to a chance for the opposition. "
Surprise
Sometimes
Lead
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