AAGS 2021

20 Chinese. I didn’t know the name of the players, but we played incredibly well. But you need to have a psychological preparation. You still to this day go and watch, and even film matches, what are you looking for when you watch them back? First, the organization of the teams. The organization in the field is more important. I never record the ball. I record what is around, but the ball is important. You can see how is the organization of the team, but do you work the most with or without the ball? The ball is important, but you need to have the ball for this you need to recover the ball. For example, corner kick, free kick, everything. This is so important and immediately you see if the team works or if they don’t work. What do you feel you can still contribute to football? Do you feel they way that you can still contribute and want to? Normally I like football; this is my life. Many times, they say Bora you are so old. But I don’t care what they think, this is important! I’m so happy, I enjoy the game, every day I compete, I do my best, I think age is not important, what is important is how you feel, which is your passion. You watch football every day. Do you like what you see now the game has changed? On the television, they all look nice, in many colours. You have a camera, you have everything, but the football I don’t like to speak. I prefer before when there were much more talented players, today is different. Before there were younger players and older coaches. Today there are younger coaches but older players. It is very interesting point about the Ballon d’Or with Messi winning it again for the record time, and the other players who are also up for it were players who were all 34, 35 years of age. What do you think of older players? You could’ve also mentioned Ibrahimovic. Here, the player that calls for more attention in Qatari football is Tabata. He is 40 or 41 years old but every day he plays, and he scores goals. What does that mean? Age is not important, how you feel is much more important, how you are physically and psychologically. We are less than a year away from the FIFA world cup Qatar 2022. You’ve seen that whole development and the commitment and the investment to being able to put on this tournament, how do you feel? Do you support Qatar now or Serbia? You forgot Mexico and USA as well! Yes, but the team normally is Qatar as I’m here. I don’t like to sort but it might be Qatar, Serbia, Mexico, USA, Nigeria, only I’m sorry for China.