Gervinho

I lived a dream. Any kid who starts playing can't help but to dream to play at a club like Arsenal.

When you get to a club and things are not going well, it's not easy to live.

We try to keep our heads cool and our chins up to win every weekend. Sometimes it works better than others but you have to focus on the positive side so for that next game you still have the right state of mind.

He had a sort of positive effect - you saw Salah and wanted to work harder. Talent and sacrifice.

It is always a great pleasure to fight for your own country.

In Ivory Coast it's very hard to have normal shoes, so just imagine football boots - they were considered a true luxury.

As a child I dreamed of playing for Arsenal, because I loved them. Now I hate them for the way Wenger treated me.

Thanks to football my family are able to live well.

Football really has saved my family and it's true that it saves a lot of families in Africa. It gives us the means to be able to give a better life to our loved ones.

I don't know what I would have done had I not become a footballer. I've always wanted to do that, even when my family would try to stop me playing football so that I went to school.

When I went to the academy, we watched Arsenal because of Guillou's connection with Arsene.

I have got lots of confidence in my own ability and I know I have got to keep up my standards.