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

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 always seen myself as an athlete. Of course, I made the mistake of unintentionally opening the door to my private life by just a crack. I wouldn't do the same thing again. It has to be accepted that my private life is private, and if that isn't the case, I have to do something about it.

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

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

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.