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English football is really different to football in other countries.

While American football is very structured and linear and static - where everyone lines up, and there's a burst, and it happens - soccer is like the cosmos. It's like constellations. It's bodies moving in space. It's a very spherical game.

I don't think the physical part of English football would be a problem. When you get the ball, you need to be ready. The defenders here are very tough. I like that.

Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.

A couple of games, I played up front when Diego Costa was not there. We know to create movement - not even to get the ball, but create space for others. Now I understand football is not always with the ball at my feet.

Football can generate excitement and bring people together.

When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.

When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football.

And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.