Soccer is what I grew up doing - it's my passion, and I'm way more comfortable on the field in my soccer cleats.
At Barca we trained every day with the ball. I hardly even took a step running without a ball at my feet.
Even when I'm training alone, I always prefer doing soccer-related stuff. On my own, I'll run through cones or do some shooting exercises or pass the ball against the wall.
At six years old, our son had friends who played soccer from 4 P.M. to 7 P.M., Monday through Friday. A six-year-old practicing as much as a Division I athlete.
I played soccer when I was a kid. I started when I was 8 and played for 8 more years. I was pretty good. I used to train with Atletico Nacional, which is one of the most important teams in Colombia. I used to train every day.
At Real Madrid, I did heading drills with Cristiano Ronaldo. You see him go up for headers, that spring and power - he is a real beast. At Juventus, I saw Fernando Llorente, how he finds space and directs his headers.
I've learned things in Italy at the age of 31. Some of the passing drills are so complicated you need a high level of concentration and if you mess up the rhythm, believe me you are told!
I've always wanted to become a professional soccer player.
When I played for Boston Breakers in my early twenties, I really stepped up my training, which meant running drills until you're sick.
I first got involved in soccer when I was three years old. And I played until I was sixteen, so for thirteen years, and I love it.
Sometimes, I put a couple of mannequins on the edge of the box and do these things called bounce balls. You pass against it, and it comes back; you take a couple of touches 'round the mannequins and shoot.
It isn't hard to practise finishing. You can do it on your own: just take a couple of touches and shoot at goal. You can do it with whatever equipment you have.
The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20.
When I was growing up, I played a lot of soccer. I always wanted to be a good soccer player.
Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.
But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.
I just want to be one of the best in the Premier League, scoring goals.
My dad had a soccer school that he used to run, the Mark Chamberlain Soccer Academy, I used to go to that for two years until the age of seven.
I remember Ron Atkinson used to play in the sessions at Manchester United when he was the manager. Rated himself as a player.
I've always thought it would be interesting to give insight on soccer because I have a lot of experience in my career.
I'm always learning, especially with the different formations. It will help me in the long run to maybe become a forward player - on the wing or something.
I was the kid who always liked to take the ball down to the school even in my free time, kick it against the wall, juggle it in the front yard and so it was kind of a perpetual state of playing soccer for me.
I've played soccer since I was five.
Obviously, when you're doing fitness work at a club all week and every week, it's all about specific drills for what you need to do on the pitch. So I'd be doing a different drill to the centre-midfielders. It's all specifically tailored for me. For example, my drills are high speed. It's all about trying to break the line with a sharp sprint.
To play a soccer game, you have to be in very good shape.
