It was a world record transfer, but i never wanted to sign for milan. then came my crash. i could have died.

When the Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened in April 1986, I was nine years old. I’d just had a trial with Dynamo Kyiv, and it had gone well, but everything changed. In the first few days following t

Would you say your long-range strike against Spain, which sent England to the Euro 2022 semi-finals, has been your career highlight to date? That tournament was a bit of a rocket for me. I was able to

CRUZEIRO 0 FLAMENGO 1 Copa do Brasil, 1995 “This game made me leave behind youth football and spread my wings. I was 18. We played against Romario’s Flamengo and, despite losing, everyone recognised m

O wen Hargreaves is one of English football’s most curious cases. The son of a Welsh mother and an English father, he was born in Canada before moving to Bayern Munich as a teenager. There, he broke i

What are your main hopes for this summer? I always see international tournaments as being like the Champions League: it takes more to win it. Everybody is on point, at the maximum and focusing on the

You recently retired aged 40 after playing over 900 games. Why now? I’d been thinking about it for close to two years and had become quite comfortable with calling it a day. But as soon as I actually