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![Xabi Alonso’s Full interview with AS:The Madrid dressing room: “It’s not divided. I am informed of everything and I can see the difference between reality and what gets said in the press. We cannot spend our whole time denying everything that comes out. We are, and should be, a team, we have to keep sticking together, because this is a team sport.”Casillas and Mourinho:“They maintain a professional coach-player relationship, but they don’t have to go out for beers with each other.”Alonso’s pet hates: “I hate rude people, people who are always showing off. I also cannot deal with lateness.”Playing for Madrid but being a proud Basque: “I have never had a problem with it, I deal with it normally. If it offends anyone, that’s their problem, not mine.”Losing control: “Sometimes I lose it on the pitch, but not very often. It’s not my style. I try not to perform theatrics on the pitch because I hate it when I see other players do it.”The insult he hates hearing the most: “When they say I am lazy. Some people are always trying to wind you up.”Was football often talked about at home when you were growing up? [his father, Miguel Ángel, played for Barcelona, Real Sociedad and Spain, and his brother, Mikel, was also a professional footballer] “Not always, but of course we watched games with my father and we would discuss them together, although he wasn’t the type of player who would talk about battles between players nor give us advice on how to improve. Although, of course, he had a lot of influence on us, I never thought I would end up playing for Real Madrid or would win the World Cup. That wasn’t my objective, it was just a natural consequence. I never thought I would achieve anything more than what my father achieved, I thought that would be very difficult.”Is it harder to score a goal or bring up children: “Both things are difficult .I love bringing up children. I try to be a great dad, my children are my main responsibility. Becoming a father completely changes your life, there’s no instruction manual. I spend a lot of time away and in the end it is my wife who looks after them more. And that’s very hard, not being with them every day. When I travel with the team we speak on Skype until they fall asleep.”His future: “I’m not sure if I will become a coach, I don’t rule it out, but I would have to do my badges. I would like to go into the world of IT and software, maybe create apps for mobile phones.” [Iker Casillas’ Reaction]One of the most difficult moments of his life - when his wife, pregnant with their first son, was about to go into labour when he had to travel to Milan for a Champions League game: “I spent hours mulling over what to do and in the end I couldn’t do anything else than accompany my wife and be present for the birth. I took the right decision and I’d do the same again.”His eldest son still does not know he is a footballer: “One day he came home and asked me “Daddy, do you know Cristiano?” I told him he was my team-mate. And when people stop me on the street and ask me for my autograph, he says: “Daddy, is that your friend?”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/7bd2cbde0ca8acbd56479f168970b894/tumblr_mikrn9MPPN1qe9lszo1_400.jpg)
Xabi Alonso’s Full interview with AS:
The Madrid dressing room: “It’s not divided. I am informed of everything and I can see the difference between reality and what gets said in the press. We cannot spend our whole time denying everything that comes out. We are, and should be, a team, we have to keep sticking together, because this is a team sport.”
Casillas and Mourinho:“They maintain a professional coach-player relationship, but they don’t have to go out for beers with each other.”
Alonso’s pet hates: “I hate rude people, people who are always showing off. I also cannot deal with lateness.”
Playing for Madrid but being a proud Basque: “I have never had a problem with it, I deal with it normally. If it offends anyone, that’s their problem, not mine.”
Losing control: “Sometimes I lose it on the pitch, but not very often. It’s not my style. I try not to perform theatrics on the pitch because I hate it when I see other players do it.”
The insult he hates hearing the most: “When they say I am lazy. Some people are always trying to wind you up.”
Was football often talked about at home when you were growing up? [his father, Miguel Ángel, played for Barcelona, Real Sociedad and Spain, and his brother, Mikel, was also a professional footballer] “Not always, but of course we watched games with my father and we would discuss them together, although he wasn’t the type of player who would talk about battles between players nor give us advice on how to improve. Although, of course, he had a lot of influence on us, I never thought I would end up playing for Real Madrid or would win the World Cup. That wasn’t my objective, it was just a natural consequence. I never thought I would achieve anything more than what my father achieved, I thought that would be very difficult.”
Is it harder to score a goal or bring up children: “Both things are difficult .I love bringing up children. I try to be a great dad, my children are my main responsibility. Becoming a father completely changes your life, there’s no instruction manual. I spend a lot of time away and in the end it is my wife who looks after them more. And that’s very hard, not being with them every day. When I travel with the team we speak on Skype until they fall asleep.”
His future: “I’m not sure if I will become a coach, I don’t rule it out, but I would have to do my badges. I would like to go into the world of IT and software, maybe create apps for mobile phones.” [Iker Casillas’ Reaction]
One of the most difficult moments of his life - when his wife, pregnant with their first son, was about to go into labour when he had to travel to Milan for a Champions League game: “I spent hours mulling over what to do and in the end I couldn’t do anything else than accompany my wife and be present for the birth. I took the right decision and I’d do the same again.”
His eldest son still does not know he is a footballer: “One day he came home and asked me “Daddy, do you know Cristiano?” I told him he was my team-mate. And when people stop me on the street and ask me for my autograph, he says: “Daddy, is that your friend?”
