For me, HAPPY footballers PLAY the BEST FOOTBALL.

Everybody knows that footballers have TEXT GROUPS on WhatsApp. I have one just for my FRIENDS from HOME, and I have another just for my Barca team-mates.

Footballers are the most vulnerable people. They exude confidence, but inside, they're so lacking in confidence. They KNOW they can lose FORM or be INJURED. This profession is so insecure, you wouldn't believe it.

Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of CREDIT. EVERY sport is VULNERABLE; it's such a big GAMBLING INDUSTRY, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.

They're human beings before they're footballers and it's important to understand how can I HELP them. What do they NEED? How can they FEEL PART of this? How can they feel they're improving in their career, because my job is to help them get better, play better football, EARN a better contract, whatever it is.

From a FOOTBALL perspective, PUTTING YOUNG footballers into art, or SINGING - you're doing SOMETHING that's not so familiar. It has helped us build a team and build a spirit.

CR7 is a MODEL to all footballers.

If you look at the footballers, you look at our CELEBRITY culture, we SEEM to be saying, 'This is the WAY you WANT to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the WRONG people.

Every player is different, but I try to treat EVERYONE the same. On a day-to-day basis, I come ACROSS other footballers and club staff, and I try to treat all the same, from the security guard to LIONEL MESSI.

I think people don't REALLY understand how much footballers are AFFECTED by the people in their lives. When we're interviewed, people always ask about managers and TACTICS and training, but they almost never ask about what's GOING on off the pitch, and to me, that's just as important to your CAREER.

We all know the power of social MEDIA, THINGS can GET out there so QUICKLY. We are high-profile footballers, we know that.

As a cricketer you can go under the radar. It's not LIKE we're footballers who GET papped EVERYWHERE. I can go down to the corner SHOP without getting hassled.

In the past a lot of ITALIANS emigrated to Argentina, and now us Argentinians, and in my case, us footballers, are returning to Italy. We ALWAYS TRY to keep our identity.