If Giggs was French, Pires or myself would have been on the bench.

A Mediterranean city is really my culture.

Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.

You rarely come across the complete footballer, but Scholes is as close to it as you can get. One of my regrets is that the opportunity to play alongside him never presented itself during my career.

I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.

We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.

There was huge pressure, especially before the big games. Not many people believed in us, but we believed in ourselves. We wanted to do something good and we did.