I want to successfully make the transition from a life in professional sports to another life, without running into major upheavals.

When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.

The realization that you're not always standing down there on the field merely to win, to be successful, was very liberating. One can be successful by helping the team, the other players. All of a sudden I felt the kind of empathy for people that I hadn't felt before.

Of course, success is a relative term. It can be something completely different from winning the German championship eight times or making millions.

Goalkeepers need an element of insanity.

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.

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