When you go into extra time, we're talking about drama. But when we reach the penalty shootout, it's a tragedy.

I have no problem with G14. How can I oppose something that as far as I am concerned, does not exist?

Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.

What we have to do is to find a solution that the interests of the national teams are respecting the interests of the clubs. And also the clubs they shall respect the interests and the aspirations of national teams.

I think it is high time that Europe starts to understand that we do not rule the world anymore, and that some former European imperial powers can no longer impress their will on to others in far away places, and we must accept that football has moved away from being a European and South American sport: it has become the World Sport that billions of fans are excitedly following every week, everywhere in the world.

There is a movement in club football, which I don't necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa.

They (the FAI) have asked, very humbly, can't we be team No 33 at the World Cup? They have asked for that... really!