When I follow the finals of the European Cups, I look at all the aspects surrounding protocol, to get some ideas. I am interested in personalities, sponsors and the stands. But as soon as the whistle goes, it's all on the pitch.

A football team represents a way of being, a culture.

At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.

If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three.

Messi is the great player of this generation, like there were great players in other generations.

Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw.

Consequently, I won just about everything I set out to win, everything bar the World Cup, of course. But even now, I don't regret that, because I was part of a team which twice reached the semi-finals.