Fabio Cannavaro

I'm a coach who admires attacking football. I want my teams to look to win.

I like Mourinho a lot. He has a good relationship with fans, and he always takes responsibility for his players.

Napoli will always have my heart, and it is normal that I want them to win.

I would recommend all players go to Napoli, it is a gratifying and successful place.

Conte is a good friend and is very charismatic.

It's always good to win in the pre-season.

Size has never been a problem for me.

I was strong inside my head.

Big or short, for me what was important was to win the game with my team.

I began searching for my confidence on the pitch as a young boy.

It can be lonely as a manager out there. You are on the field, yes, but you are not really on the field with them. Yet I have to share with my players my experiences and my knowledge.

I have played plenty of matches where I thought I had left everything on the field and given a game my all, but what I have come to realise since I retired and began coaching - 90 minutes on the field do not compare to life as a manager.

As manager of Tianjin Quanjian every day, every week, I have to give our players everything I have.

Real Madrid? I don't have any nostalgia or bitterness.

Being in a football environment is where I'm most comfortable. I only feel excited and motivated when it comes to crucial, difficult, important matches.

I'm not saying there's no pressure at Evergrande, there's pressure at Evergrande all the time. But I am myself and, no matter if I'm playing for Real Madrid or at the World Cup, I've never felt pressure.

I think to reach a Champions League final isn't easy, whether it's in Europe or Asia.

Real are the type of club where you are expected to win every game. For a player who wants to be the best it is stimulating to feel the pressure to defend their interests.

I do feel I'm a player who has played well in 2006.

I have thought about moving to Dubai for a while. It's a city that I love.

I have always been a Napoli fan, but the choice to move to Dubai is the right one.

I am Neapolitan and Naples are the team from where I grew up.

I have great respect for Juve, whom gave me so much, where I won two championships.

Zidane was the most unpleasant among my colleagues. I have never liked him on the pitch and we have always clashed. Albeit a champion for his class, I have never managed to see his fair play.

I have no regrets. I won with the most prestigious clubs in the world - Real Madrid and Juventus - and also with the national team. I won the Ballon d'Or and Fifa World Player at 33 years old.

For a team of Evergrande's level, fans hope to have the top coaches and the coach will definitely face various pressures.

Now, all the people who spoke before, when I won the Golden Ball, have shut their mouths now the coaches and players from national teams have given me this prize and this recognition.

Italy is a great country, one of the most beautiful in the world, but I've always gone my own way.

I was trained under very famous coaches in the Italian national team, Read Madrid, Juventus, Internazionale and Parma.

My ambition with Al Ahli is to be an example for the local players. They must learn that professionalism is the path to success.

Change does not mean you will win with a new coach and achieve victories, but rather it causes instability in the team as the new coach needs some time for the players to adapt his new plans, which are always different than the previous coach.

The national team has always lent its image to help Italy's problems over the years... The national team is more about uniting than dividing.

I know that people in Guangzhou have been very kind to me.

People who know me would know that I take one battle at a time.

It's not one person that changes the team.

I had good times with Juventus but when you are offered the chance to come to Real at almost 33 years of age it is a great opportunity.

After winning the World Cup and the European Footballer of the Year award too, I do not think I can ask for anything else.

I like Mourinho because he is intelligent. When his team are in difficulty he's very good at focussing the attention on himself.

Juventus in Italy are like Real Madrid in Spain, when you enter the team it feels different.

I'm definitely not a perfect coach and it's impossible to make everyone satisfied.

Obviously I want to win something important, this game is important to me.

The only regret I can have is that Inter sold a player that is now completely recovered. I said many times that I wouldn't have left Inter without showing who I was. But then they sold me.

We often talk about this VAR, this new technology. It's very important new technology. On the pitch maybe it's not clear. You cannot see... maybe from another angle in front of the TV it's much more clear. But it's, as always, football. It's easy to be much more polemic about this and that.

As a player it was always not easy to play against Australia. It was always very difficult.

Someone who signs a contract must respect it.

When someone becomes a part of the Azzurri squad that has won a World Cup, they are like family, and they never abandon anyone.

I would love to become the national team coach. I am aware that it is a tough job, but I spent 15 years with Italy. In my opinion, I have the right experience for this role and I know the environment very well too.

My dream was to become the flagship player for Napoli. Even though I played for other teams, I would have liked to have returned and retired there. Napoli is my life, my city, I have regrets.

With Benitez, he should not be measured on his time at Inter. The Spanish coach has important experience. He has won trophies in England and Spain.

The most imortant thing is to win.