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Sometimes that kind of last-ditch tackle can get the crowd excited, and you get a push from that. It's important to play with that psychological side of the game, but it depends on the quality of the player.

Crowd Depends Excited Game
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I want to win the Champions League with Bayern.

Champions Champions League League Want
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Anoeta is always a tough place to go: people get right behind their side.

Always Behind Get Go
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If I have to yell at Cristiano Ronaldo, I yell.

Yell
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It's hard to imagine being an ex-player. It's not easy to find a new passion.

Being Easy Find Hard
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I have improved with time by playing for elite teams in elite leagues and the Champions League and with the Spanish national team in World Cups and European Championships.

Champions Champions League Championships Cups
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I feel very comfortable with the system used by Mourinho. It's a very dynamic 4-2-3-1 that can easily change to 4-3-3 or 4-1-4-1 depending on the moment or the team's needs. He really knows what he wants.

Change Comfortable Depending Dynamic
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I came from my hometown team, Real Sociedad, to the best team in England, to the best team in Spain, to the best team in Germany.

Best Came England Germany
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There were many good reasons to move to Bayern, and Pep Guardiola was definitely one of them.

There were many good reasons to move to Bayern And Pep Guardiola was definitely one of them.
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Cristiano's numbers are amazing, indisputable.

Amazing Numbers
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I wanted to end my career still at the highest level, and Bayern is the highest level.

Career End Highest Highest Level
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I grew up a lot as a professional and as a person in Liverpool, and I have very strong links to the club and the city.

City Club Grew Links
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So many times, football is really unfair.

Football Many Really Times
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Being a manager is so different to being a footballer. It's a very difficult job, but, of course, it's very exciting as well.

Being Course Different Difficult
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My family have absolutely no problem about me playing for Real Madrid. They have become Real Madrid fans.

About Absolutely Become Family
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You always want to feel important at wherever you are at.

Always Feel Important Want
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Writing is not my thing; playing football is my thing.

Football Playing Thing Writing
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Passion isn't something you work on. It's more important to construct a good team, to know how you are going to play, how to read the match. You have to truly understand the game.

Construct Game Going Good
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I don't think tackling is a quality. It is a recurso, something you have to resort to, not a characteristic of your game.

Characteristic Game Quality Resort
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If you win the midfield, you probably win the game. But that doesn't mean the players in the midfield are the ones alone who determine that, because now we have strikers who drop into midfield and defenders who move up into the midfield. It is the area you must dominate.

Alone Area Because Defenders
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If you have control of the midfield, you have control of the game, and you have more chances to win.

Chances Control Game More
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My game is not to have one great action. My game is to be consistent throughout: to bring the ball in the best and quickest possible way for the best players to make the last action.

Action Ball Best Bring
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I know what my strengths and weaknesses are on the pitch. My duty is to be risk averse.

Duty Know Pitch Risk
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At the end, when you play, you want to win.
End Play Want Win
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They value different things in every country. In England, it's very physical. You tackle, you shoot. I love watching it. In Spain, it's different. Pass the ball, move, find the space.

Ball Country Different Different Things
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Munich is a very good city to live in. The life quality is superb.

City Good Life Live
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Bayern is a big club and a big brand, but on a daily basis, it's a family club. You get to know the physios, the kit man, the chefs. It's also a club that's very close to the supporters. That proximity to the fans makes it special. That was surprising. In Liverpool and Madrid, there's more distance.

Also Basis Big Brand
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The grass, the sound of the ball, the jokes with my teammates - that's what I will miss most. That is what fulfills you most on a daily basis.

Ball Basis Daily Daily Basis
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I am still as slow as I was when I was 20.

Am I Am Slow Still
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I don't think I will stop learning about football. There are certain parts we will never understand, like what happens in the brain of a player or makes a team fear.

About Brain Certain Fear
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To be fighting at European level, you need players who know how to play in the big games.

Big European Fighting Games
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The Bundesliga is much quicker; it's more physical than the Liga, which is more technical.

More Much Physical Quicker
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Neuer is by far the best keeper I've played with and is also outstanding outfield.

Also Best Far Keeper
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The only thing I regret is not winning the Premier League with Liverpool. I'll never know how that feels and experience the reaction of the city, as I did after Istanbul. It hurts because I know the people want the league title more than anything.

After Anything Because City
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It is difficult to copy Real Madrid, as not every team has those players who can run with such explosion, like Ronaldo.

Copy Difficult Every Explosion
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If you go out and play your own way, anything can happen. You might win.

Anything Go Happen Might
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Matches in England are special.

England Matches Special
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I still feel I have a special connection with Liverpool fans.

Connection Fans Feel Liverpool
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I stay in contact with friends I have in Liverpool. It's not a normal club; it's so special and very important to me.

Club Contact Friends Important
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I've been lucky, but I have earned that luck.

Been Earned Luck Lucky
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I would never have dreamed to have had such a nice career as this. I like football, and this is like a nice football journey.

Career Dreamed Football Had
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I've played with great players and worked with great managers; I've learned a lot from all of them.

Great Learned Lot Managers
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I have been lucky enough to be at great clubs, from my hometown club to Liverpool to Real Madrid to Bayern Munich.

Been Club Clubs Enough
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That is probably the biggest issue about the English game. You need to be a great player and great at striking the ball, of course, but it's also about your head and being able to understand the game, especially for a midfielder.

Able About Also Ball
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I don't want to just play well; I want the players around me to play better, and that's when I feel that I have done my job.

Around Better Done Feel
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That's one thing that I've always wanted: to make my own decisions and not to be pushed. That has happened in my career, and I wanted to leave football, not football to leave me. I wanted to enjoy it as much as I could and to leave it a little bit earlier than too late.

Always Bit Career Could
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Managing Liverpool? Yes, for sure, I have dreamt of that, but first I have to prove myself and prepare.

Dreamt First Liverpool Managing
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If I decide somewhere along the way to take my chances as a manager, my link, my commitment, my passion with Liverpool is there.

Along Chances Commitment Decide
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I've still got Paul Scholes' shirt at home, which I swapped with him once. When I was at Liverpool, he was one of the players I liked most.

Got He Him Home
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I have played against, but not with, Zinedine Zidane and would liked to have played with him.

Against Him Liked Played
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