For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world.

Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.

Surviving the first round is never my aim. Ideally, I'd be in one group with Brazil, Argentina and Germany. Then I'd have lost two rivals after the first round. That's how I think. Idealisitic.

A counter-attack can only arise when you make a mistake. That's why there are rules. A horizontal pass? Prohibited. In my line-up there are as many lines as possible. Because you must have the option to pass the ball forward, even if it's a meter. Because then I can still make up for the loss of possession. After a horizontal pass this is impossible.

Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.

After you've won something, you're no longer 100 percent, but 90 percent. It's like a bottle of carbonated water where the cap is removed for a short while. Afterwards there's a little less gas inside.

I always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked.