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What our children are missing today are good role models.

If African teams can realize the importance of team spirit they will know that they can win a World Cup.

African soccer has grown to the extent that the majority of its players are playing for European teams and that is very good as they are becoming role models for the youngsters on the continent.

I really love football and for this reason alone, I trained hard every day, building up good stamina and energy.

What impresses me most is Bastian Schweinsteiger. He is a complete player who has been an enormous help to his team, Bayern.

Thank God Brazilian goalkeepers are now learning to play with their feet, because that was the big problem.

Mistakes are a risk but recovering from them shows a lot of personality.

To play for the England national team, you have to be very good, and to play at Liverpool, you have to be very, very good.

Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen form one of the best attacking duos in football, both are very quick and deadly.

Pele was the best of his era, Diego Maradona was the Pele of the Eighties, and Ronaldinho is the Pele of our time.

Ronaldinho is very complete. He's a good header of the ball, he strikes it well with both feet, he dribbles, he scores.

Of all the players at the World Cup I don't think it is too much to compare Ronaldinho with the great Pele.

It was funny, a lot of people who rejected me as a player, later said, 'Oh, we did it to help you.' I met a coach years later who said, 'I didn't take you at that time for your own good!'

I am absolutely sure that whoever comes to Brazil will be mesmerized with the country.

With Neymar on the pitch, whether he wants it or not, eight opponents will stay connected to him.

Pele revolutionized football. Pele stopped a war. Pele united countries, united families.

After I signed pro forms in 1991, I went on to be chosen for a Paulista state championship select XI, then for Brazil at youth level, then for the full squad, and then finally I became a World Cup winner.

The beginning of a career is hard for many players, often because of the ordinary day-to-day problems that football and life bring.

No, no, Gary Neville was a fantastic full back. He would genuinely get to the by-line. He played without fear. He was a leader.

Dani Alves would be a great signing for AC Milan. He is one of the strongest full-backs in the world.