Spain and Liverpool midfielder on why he loves the mix of cultures in modern football and how the game has changed in recent years
“My dad has a phrase he always used and still does now: diversión con responsibilidad, fun with responsibility,” Thiago Alcântara says, sitting at Spain’s Las Rozas training base. “It’s like a motto we have between us, and I think you take that lesson into life too.”
What weighs more heavily, fun or responsibility? Football can be a suffocatingly serious business.
