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In sports, teams win and individuals don't.

I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.

I, most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

You want to win the games, to win trophies.

Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.

It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.

If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?

People are proud of their players.

Now, everybody always says there's no 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team. So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.