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Playing at coach is very easy; actually doing it is another thing. Put yourself in the coach’s position, and you’ll see how complex everything is.
Football is not as easy as it looks from the television gantry.
I have had so many team-mates who have been technically better than me.
I’ve always believed that training with great players makes you a better player.
I’ve always been a very passionate football supporter, and I used to watch the Champions League.
Playing in England was a fantastic experience. In Liverpool, I felt at home and really, thoroughly enjoyed it.
I remember my first Champions League final in 1996: Juventus-Ajax. That’s the clearest memory from my childhood.
When you are not winning games in a row, you don’t have confidence, and it is difficult to show all the qualities that you have.
The kudos and hierarchy of playing in the Premier League for a footballer is huge.
In football, 80% of the game is played in your head; the other 20% is physical and tactical.
I like talking about football.
I don’t go out to enjoy myself: I enjoy myself when I’m learning in training, but I don’t enjoy the 90 minutes I spend out on the pitch during a game.
Before I came to Barcelona, I only thought about one facet of the game: destroying. My qualities were completely defensive, and I wouldn’t take responsibility for organising my team’s game, our attacks.
When you have someone better ahead of you, you accept it and try to turn the situation around.
When I couldn’t play at West Ham, I kept my mentality, and I went to train every day to be a better player.
I have always tried to live football from a survivalist perspective.
In my position, I’ve always admired Claude Makelele. I grew up watching him play. I was able to play against him in the final stages of his career. I have always liked his way of playing football, and given my position and style, he’s been a mirror to compare myself against.
One day I won’t play for Barcelona. I’ll go and play somewhere else, and I’m sure I’ll do so as a central midfielder. That’s what I’ll try to do because it’s the position I like.
Great players are very good technically, but they also have a huge amount of character because, without it, you will never get to see that great technique because it vanishes under pressure.
Being the Barca coach is different to being the coach at another club because you have to adapt to the philosophy of the club. At other clubs, maybe you have the freedom to adapt the team to your way of thinking. Here, that’s not the case.
One lives every World Cup differently, mostly because one’s age changes.
Even just a little bit of praise can weaken you.
The Champions League was something very distant for us. I grew up in a very small town with 50,000 inhabitants, and it was a way of being able to watch my idols or people I admired play football on television.
Honestly, after five, six months, I thought it was unlikely I’d be here long: my characteristics seemed to go against everything Barcelona stood for.
Liverpool is a club where you need to be there to enjoy it. It’s not worth owning Liverpool if you are going to always be 20,000 miles away.
For Argentina I’m a central midfielder. Always have been and always will be.
I didn’t have the chance to play at West Ham, but in football, you always have a chance. When I went to Liverpool, I had the chance to show my quality.
I’m a sporting professional; I don’t have a great understanding of tax and legal matters.
This is football: one day you win, one day you lose, and there’s a very fine line between them.
My feeling for Liverpool does not mean I’m tied to them.
