"I feel like a professional footballer again after all those hard days in Manchester. "It's difficult to explain, but it was hard being alone.
Sometimes at United I thought 'I don't need this', but I am a fighter and a professional. "This was the biggest fight of my career and I won it." There are only 12 players in the history of football who have ever won the World Cup and played for Manchester United in their professional career.
It is an exclusive club which began with Sir Bobby Charlton, Nobby Stiles and John Connelly back in 1966 with England, and was most recently added to by Paul Pogba and Raphael Varane after their triumph with France three years ago.
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