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

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

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

I am firmly convinced that you shouldn't necessarily emphasize hedonism, especially at the beginning of a career, but should instead focus entirely on performance.

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

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

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.