“While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team’s victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent.”

At the moment there are some England players who are the stars of their club teams, but not for their country. It’s difficult to explain.

Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be.

The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.

Money is not a motivating factor. I do what comes to me at that moment.

If you don’t want to play clean football then go up into the stands

I hate everything that comes from the United States. I hate it with all my strength.

I’m alive and I want to keep living.

If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world

I’d give my life to be the national team coach.

When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.

Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.

I was, I am and I always will be a drug addict. A person who gets involved in drugs has to fight it everyday.

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.

What I love most about Norway is you ladies. Back home I’m used to fat and hairy women journalists.

Everybody in Argentina can remember the hand of God in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the hand of God has brought us an Argentinian pope.

Messi scores a goal and celebrates. Cristiano scores a goal and poses like he’s in a shampoo commercial.