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.

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

It looked pretty wild, but I was actually in control of myself. I've never really injured anyone throughout my career.

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

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

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 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.