I love football... Fabregas

Cesc Fabregas tells Soccer AM what makes the beautiful game so special to him.

We all love football. But why? Well Soccer AM has been asking some of the biggest names in the sport what makes the beautiful game so great. This week Arsenal and Spain midfielder Cesc Fabregas reveals who his footballing hero was. MY FAVOURITE GROUND WAS...
Camp Nou was where I used to go week in and week out and it's where they used to take me when I was young, so it was fantastic for me. MY FOOTBALLING HERO WAS...
My footballing hero was always (Pep) Guardiola and I always tried to watch him play. Before you sent him the ball he knew where he was going to pass it. For me, that's a quality that not many people have. MY FAVOURITE THING ABOUT MATCH DAY WAS...
Seeing the team bus going passed because I was always in the first row, looking for my heroes and shouting at them and seeing if they were waving back. For me that was fantastic. THE GREATEST GAME I'VE EVER WATCHED IS...
Maybe the one between Man Utd and Bayern Munich in the Camp Nou because I was there. I was very young and seeing it live, it was probably the most incredible and crazy game I've ever seen in my life. YOU WOULDN'T KNOW I USED TO...
I didn't have a goal so my target was to see if I could kick it at the windows of my neighbours to see if I could break them or not and if I had power! I was a bit cheeky when I was younger I have to say, but hopefully I've changed because before I was totally crazy. IF I COULD CHANGE ANYTHING I WOULD...
I would bring in referees that have played the game - ex-players being referees, because they see the game. Some referees make decisions that they don't understand because they haven't played football before. So I would like to see some ex-players as referees because I'm sure they would understand us better. FOOTBALL FANS ARE GREAT BECAUSE...
We are the ones that kick the ball around and score goals, but without them the passion would be zero. You would just play friendly games against players you don't know. They mean everything to football. I LOVE FOOTBALL BECAUSE...
I love football because without football I don't have a life. It would be so empty to not go training every day. Sometimes I think about what I will do when I retire and I get crazy about it. Football is 90 per cent of my life and hopefully it will be for the rest of my life.