As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.

I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.

I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.

Every kid's dream is to play in the Champions League and to win it. To actually have achieved that was an amazing feeling.

I think La Liga is the best league in the world.

When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.