I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.
From Michel Patini
In any case, you can't turn back the clock.
Whenever I was on the pitch, I always tried to win.
At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.
Consequently, I won just about everything I set out to win, everything bar the World Cup, of course. But even now, I don't regret that, because I was part of a team which twice reached the semi-finals.
During such a competition players are there for a long time as well as all the people around them. They need to train, to eat, to go out. There ought to be something in it for everyone. On that particular point, my experience has been a bonus.
I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals.
In 1986, we gave it our best shot but we didn't get the run of the ball.
The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game.
The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches.
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