For a young player like me, it is good to play for a club that can get to the semi-finals because one of the reasons I play football is for these big games.
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Of course, the best thing, if you play in the Premier League, you can always develop further as a player, and you are playing against the best players. You are also playing game after game all the time, two or three games a week.
As long as I feel the love of the game and my health is good, I'm going to play. I don't want to be one of these guys who stays too long or regrets leaving early. Football has been great to me.
The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.
You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.
You need to have a big squad; it's important when you're in the Champions League, with the amount of games we've got.
I enjoy playing at Tottenham and England as well.
As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly.
If you play the same club every week of every month, it's kind of boring. It's great that you can play one night in Brazil and one night in Japan, one night in Europe, and see the world. It's amazing what you see if you travel around the world.
Any strengthening of the squad, in a League and Champions League which demands so much, is a good thing because you need many top quality players.
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