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You have every football fan, every kid in the world, with their eyes on the shirts of our biggest clubs every single day. A shirt sponsor is a strong message.

Sometimes the games just pan out that way. One team is putting pressure on the other and when you are under pressure, you have to defend. It is part of football.

It's fair to say, there's two clubs in England have been more to me than just football clubs. It's Bolton Wanderers and Chelsea. They are not just ex-clubs, they are clubs that I have feelings for, love for because of my time there.

Barcelona Football Club is the heartbeat of the city. We win games and everybody is happy, there's a smile on people's faces. We don't win and they're sad.

Advertising is so influential. Everybody is affected by it because we see it on TV, on billboards, on football shirts. It's become a part of our everyday lives.

Under Guardiola at Barcelona, it was definitely the most attractive football I played, with the style of play.

Maybe I'm not selfish enough for a striker but I enjoy football too much.

When I was with Chelsea I would probably have said I'll never play for Tottenham because of the rivalry but never say never in football.

My main concern is to find something, in football or in life, that would give me 10 percent of the feeling or adrenaline or satisfaction of playing the game. Then I'd be a happy man.

I had feelings that I didn't know what to do with, and I felt better when I started writing them. I thought of it as poetry. I did notice girls really liked it. Better than football. They liked the combination.

When I was 12 I had the chance with a past club I played for to go to Brighton, and we watched a match. I thought English football was amazing.

I listen to the head coach, Thomas Tuchel, who has a very interesting philosophy and vision of football.

I hope that over the years, other goalkeepers like me will continue to write their name into the pages of world football.

The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, football continues to be the art of the unforeseeable. When you least expect it, the impossible occurs: the dwarf teaches the giant a lesson, and a scraggy, bow-legged black man makes an athlete sculpted in Greece look ridiculous.

I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead, 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle, and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it.

Even though professional soccer has become more about business and less about the game itself, I still believe football is a party for the legs that play it and for the eyes that watch it.

I started to play football when I was about 10; my father brought me to one school because there were more pitches where we could play.

I think the No. 9 will always be in football. You need the proper No. 9s in football; that's my opinion.

Of course we all dream about doing big, playing for big clubs, but I wanted to play football because of the love for the game.

After I finish with football, I will definitely go home. I won't stay in England, but I like it here, and I'm happy I'm doing what's best to give everything on the pitch, and then when I can, I relax. But the only bad thing is here maybe the rain is much more than in my country, but everything else I am happy with.

Nothing compares to Rome. Nothing. People there are crazy about football - in a positive way.