I can see that the UAE is growing a lot as a football country, and there is plenty of opportunity to keep going and improve.

I am preparing myself to leave football. I have always thought that once you get past 30, it is time to reflect on when you should go, and that is what I have done.

I will end my career with Roma.

I'm content with what I have done in my career.

On my podcast, I got to interview Will Ferrell, Sam Hunt, Colin Cowherd - all these different names - and it was just really cool to be able to talk to those people about things that weren't everyday life for me, which is football.

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.

I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.