I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.

To be recognised by a whole country is incredible. This is massive.

Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.

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.

Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends

I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.