Marco van Basten

As a player, you play and you have much more influence. As a manager, you talk about the game all week with every player and all of a sudden when it starts, your influence is so small and it was very difficult for me to accept that.

It is a contact sport. Being tough is also part of the game.

When you get older and more open and more honest, it is easier to show yourself how you really are.

Maybe an orange card could be shown that sees a player go out of the game for 10 minutes for incidents that are not heavy enough for a red card.

We want to have a game which is honest, which is dynamic, a nice spectacle so we should try to do everything to help that process.

Messi is unique. Inimitable and unrepeatable. Like him, one every fifty years. As a child, he fell into the pot of the football genius.

Ronaldo is a great player. But those who claim that he is stronger than Messi do not understand football or are in bad faith.

Sacchi was a good coach. He wanted to play pressure football. The good thing was that he created a good group with lots of discipline. Working together was the key. You had to do your work to help the team and that was all important.

I have worked with Johan Cruyff, with Rinus Michels, with Arrigo Sacchi and with Fabio Capello.

It's not easy being the first man as a trainer.

I have a nice life.

If I don't get enough attention, I want more attention. If I have too much attention, I want it to stop. It is not always easy to understand myself.

I had nice years at Ajax, wonderful years with Milan, and won something with the national team.

Rooney has to remember he is an icon and an example to youth.

Am I too critical on Torres and Drogba because I used to be a striker myself? I don't think so.

Rooney is the man.

They are not the same - Xavi is more the man of passing and Iniesta can dribble more - but they have great vision, they are important to the defence and the attack.

Sometimes you have an exceptional international team, such as Spain in 2010, but club football is better.

For quality and excitement the Champions League is better than the World Cup.

Xavi has won the Champions League three times, the European Championship twice and the World Cup. He's a real football player, a man who focuses on his football, hard work and training instead of the glamour, and that is why he has stayed at such a high level for so long.