Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.

The romance of English football is fantastic, but it has lost its identity under the influence of other cultures.

My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society.

If you take golf, you have a teacher for the drive, a teacher for the approach play, and a teacher for the putt. That's three specialist coaches for one player. In football, one coach looks after 25 players.

Van Gaal has a good vision of football, but it is not mine. He wants to gel winning teams and has a militaristic way of working with his tactics. I want individuals to think for themselves.

I look at Messi, and he makes me laugh. A beautiful footballer who is still like a kid. A world superstar, but still a kid. Innocent, you know. He just plays.