About Mali, they came to my house. We spoke and after that, the guy posed for a picture giving me a Mali shirt. With Spain I didn’t go because I was injured. When the time comes, you will see which team I decide.
I’ve got Argentinian blood running through my veins, and I’ve always wanted to wear the shirt of my country.
People always expect Hulk Hogan to be standing up straight, or to have the bandanna on, or to not have my arms covered up. If I have an extra large shirt on people go ‘oh yeah you look small.’ It kind of ruins the mystique.
In real life I wear one outfit and it’s jeans and a white tee shirt.
My only dream was to wear the number ten shirt of Flamengo. Since then I have just taken things as they have come to me.
In 2000 I was really close to sign for Real Madrid. I was in Belgium, playing the European Championship. I even took a picture with the Real Madrid shirt because all the parties thought that it was a done deal. But Wenger called me several times and convinced me to sign for Arsenal instead.
There here has been some exceptional players to wear the No 9 shirt for Everton. For me to get that number, I knew what it meant and I knew what was required.
Italy won the world title in 2006 and went out in the group phase in 2010 and 2014. They didn’t make it beyond the first round. You don’t win things because of your history, the shirt, or the names on the teamsheet.
You can hate on me all you want to, but what can you possibly say to somebody that looks like Rambo, pretty much, with his shirt off.
The No. 33 represents my own rise in football. It was the number of the first shirt that I wore at Palmeiras, so I feel a real affection for it.
Even if it’s a polo shirt and chinos, they should be the best possible quality and fit perfectly.
When I was 16, it was 1988, and my style was a mess. Fur-lined brown suede jacket, paisley shirt, chinos, and Doc Martens. My hair was blow dried into a large quiff. That might sound vaguely cool. It wasn’t.
I tell my sons, I say, if you’re going somewhere, you don’t have to wear a hoodie – we live in New York, so a hoodie and all that is all good. But sometimes, you know, button up your shirt. Clean up.
When I was a kid, I dreamed of wearing the Selecao shirt in a World Cup.
To customers, it’s the shirt that matters, not where it’s made.
Seeing Pax get extra-nervous about which shirt he is going to wear when he meets Aung San Suu Kyi, I get very moved. He rightfully doesn’t get nervous going to a movie premiere; he gets nervous going to meet her.
With regards to the fans, whenever I’ve played in the Atletico shirt, I have given all that I can. I think I will win the fans back on the field and not with words.
There’s something wonderful about taking a tag off a pair of socks, off a shirt, off a jacket. I really think that it has to do with my wanting to give myself all the perks that there are. It’s part of my psychosis.
Playing for England, it’s a massive honour to wear the shirt anyway, but to come and play at Wembley Stadium, in terms of how women’s football has developed, it’s a massive opportunity.
