Nesta looks back on heartbreaking Liverpool loss

Alessandro Nesta says one of his biggest regrets is throwing a 3-0 lead over Liverpool in the 2005 UCL final.

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00:00 In that debut, you had Veron, Mancini, Nedved and many others.

00:06 Yes, they were a team that we had never seen before.

00:10 We probably won less than we could.

00:13 They were a great team, then we won the championship,

00:15 but in the Champions League, if you want, in the quarterfinals,

00:17 where we came out with Valencia,

00:20 if we had passed that round, I think we could have gone to play,

00:22 I'm not saying we would have won, but we were close to the final.

00:26 Then I could have done worse in my career,

00:30 with defeats that really devastated me.

00:32 There was the final, the other final with Liverpool.

00:34 Do you know that every morning when I woke up, I said, "Come on, it didn't happen."

00:37 It's not true!

00:38 It couldn't have happened.

00:40 Then all my team-mates had a cat in their mouth and wanted to stop playing.

00:43 Everyone was crying after two weeks.

00:45 Everyone was devastated.

00:46 Then we met again at the end of the summer.

00:49 We closed there, all of us boys,

00:51 we said, "Guys, this can't end like this.

00:54 It can't end so badly."

00:56 We were there, they lost the final,

00:58 we had to come back.

00:59 Then it was destiny.

01:00 Against Liverpool.

01:02 Against Liverpool.

01:03 Intercontinental, then against Boca, we lost.

01:06 So in life there's always a reason.

01:08 But it helped me grow a lot,

01:10 because today I've also learned to lose,

01:12 because you can't always win.

01:14 When you compete, you win and you lose.

01:15 I've also learned to lose, because it's important.