Now it's official, we're in the World Cup. It's now down to us to work as hard as possible to prepare for next year.

I am a citizen of the world. Some of my best friends are black, including those I had from childhood. The fact that I made a joke in order to motivate a player has nothing to do with being racist. I'm not a racist.

This game is the most important for me as the coach of Spain. In fact probably ever,

Ivory Coast is a good team and has an advantage because it's just played the African Cup final. Although Spain hasn't played for a while, I hope the players can put on a good display.

I have to confess I am worried. We played well up to 65 minutes and then there was that extraordinary blow which threw us off-balance.

I am not worried about facing Belgium. I get worried about things like the speed of bullets if I had to go to war.