Living in Brooklyn it's a very fend-for-yourself place. Maybe it's made me a little bit harsh but I don't consider that to be pejorative.

I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.

The Champions League is a big ambition and all the footballers want to play in it. It is a very important competition.

Fitness is important, but the most important thing is how you adapt and the way you feel physically. To adapt to a new position. To try to change your game.

I like changing my hairstyle, much to my mother's annoyance. It depends on my state of mind.

When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city, he had no choice.