I would never have thought I was capable of sitting on the bench as the number two man. And it showed me that you can really achieve everything in life, even the unthinkable, as long as you're willing to work on yourself a little bit.

I would never have thought I was capable of sitting on the bench as the number two man. And it showed me that you can really achieve everything in life, even the unthinkable, as long as you're willing to work on yourself a little bit.

I've never really seen myself in the role of the victim.

It took me a long time to realize that football isn't martyrdom, but a game that's enjoyable, and one in which getting better at it is supposed to be fun. Perhaps it would have been better if I had understood this as a young man.

After a decade in a club it's quite normal and necessary that you seek and take a new challenge.

If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.

Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.