Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.
At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart.
When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.
I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.
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