I think it is important to help our country's image outside of Spain.

The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.

We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which has some validity. But the economists always speak in conditionals - what a mess.

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.