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00:00The Champions League has always been special, from the moment it was born.
00:09For us it has always been something really special.
00:12And I think it is guilty special, in the sense that we have,
00:17let's say, reserved too much energy for the Champions League compared to the league.
00:22In other words, we could have done better in the league in our years.
00:27I was in the hotel when Oscar Washington Tabarez told me that I would play in the evening,
00:34because Svone Boban had a fever.
00:37I remember the exact moment when I was pressing the elevator button.
00:41He came and told me,
00:43did you understand that you are playing tonight?
00:45I said, yes.
00:47Mentally, I remember the emotion of that moment.
00:51And from then on, from the afternoon until the evening,
00:54there were strange feelings that crossed my mind.
00:58I am ready, I will be ready.
01:00Also because that team was...
01:02I saw the formation of that evening again.
01:06It gave me goosebumps.
01:12If you analyze the player,
01:14he was predisposed for the way he was going to play.
01:16Because he was a great personality,
01:19and also a great determination.
01:21If you are a midfielder,
01:23and you have a good technique,
01:25but you spend a lot of time like him in Liverpool,
01:27you also have a bad reaction,
01:30which is fundamental in England.
01:33So, when I played against him,
01:35I had the perception that he was a player who made the ball travel well.
01:38He had a great personality,
01:40but he also had a great physical ability.
01:43In the final, three or four times,
01:45we went against each other in a heavy way.
01:48But in general, he was a great player.
01:50So, he also had a great personality.
01:52As a coach, he is amazing,
01:54because of the speed with which he is doing huge things.
01:57Playing against Bayern is tough.
01:59It's tough.
02:01It will be a very tough game.
02:06First of all, the cold.
02:08If you talk to any of us,
02:10the first thing they tell you about Dortmund,
02:12about that famous big game,
02:14is that it was 10 degrees below zero.
02:18I remember when we went out to warm up in Dortmund,
02:21you knew it was cold,
02:23but we had passed from the hotel,
02:25to the bus, to the stadium,
02:27we had noticed it.
02:29When we got out to warm up,
02:31the first time you take the air,
02:33you breathe,
02:35the air is frozen in your lungs,
02:37and you say, how can we play like this?
02:39And then it went well, because I scored a goal.
02:41Even in Monaco, we won the quarter-finals.
02:44No, no, he told us well.
02:47In Madrid,
02:49I have a great memory of Madrid,
02:51because we won.
02:53We won 3-2 against Leonardo,
02:55with a goal from Pato.
02:57I don't remember.
02:59We were a bit unlucky there,
03:01because the game went well in general.
03:03But no, Carlo is Carlo.
03:05There's nothing else to say.
03:07If we start talking about Carlo,
03:09we'll be here until tomorrow.
03:12If I tell you now,
03:14on the first day,
03:16I have some doubts about the charm
03:18of this first phase.
03:20I have the feeling that,
03:22even after the first game,
03:24there's no feeling of sports drama
03:26if you lose.
03:28If you didn't do well in the first
03:30and in the second game,
03:32you had the perception that
03:34you were almost out.
03:36So the first games were very important.
03:38Now, I hope I'm not wrong,
03:40there's the feeling that
03:42you have many more chances.
03:44You can get back into the situation.
03:46So there's a bit of charm,
03:48a bit of that feeling that
03:50the first game and the second
03:52are fundamental.
03:54Maybe I'm wrong.
03:56We'll see.
03:58It's definitely an advantage
04:00for those who, like Milan,
04:02had a hard time in the first game.