I'm not the type who spends his free time in training camp playing with his Playstation or playing cards on trips. The other players thought it was odd: There he is, reading again.

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

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

Messi is undoubtedly a gifted footballer, like Maradona and Pele, and he's playing for the best club side in the world at the moment. He's successful and he's winning trophies, so it's only logical that he'll be voted the best player in the world.

I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win.

A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.

I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.