> “In Barcelona, as a family, we had an amazing, amazing period. My daughter went to Barcelona at one month old. My son was born in Barcelona. Me, my wife and the kids, we spent four amazing years in Barcelona. And I cannot have any bad feeling about it,” he told Vanity Fair.
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> ”But football is football, and I played so many times against Barcelona, starting at Chelsea before I went to Inter. Big Champions League matches with Chelsea, then big Champions League matches with Inter, and then I went to Real Madrid. I think it was destiny that put us against each other.
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> “In the end, I don’t deny I love Real Madrid, and this is the reason I’m going back. But I don’t have bad feelings in relation to Barcelona at all. I just enjoy playing against them because in football, you enjoy playing against the best. The best push you to be better than you are.”