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Good morning, everyone.
Thank you very much.
I was 31 in the 2004/05 season.
I'd been at Liverpool for three years.
But sometimes my focus would fail me.
I hated myself for that.
All you read in the newspaper
is how the coach will definitely need a new goalkeeper.
It was so unusual to work with someone with such attention to detail.
And everyone was thinking, "Damn! Why are we doing this?"
As a little boy,
my dad gave me a notebook.
I'd spend a long time thinking about things,
going over and over things in my head.
And I'd write down every line-up in this notebook,
from every game for my school team.
I'd write down stats, such as goals,
average ratings, shots on goal.
I started to analyze the movements and characteristics of the game.
Without realizing it, I had this way of perceiving football.
I'd then pass this on to the players,
to improve each player and the team a bit more.
Small details make the difference.
With this in mind, you perfect your game.
When I joined Liverpool,
there was a culture based on emotion.
Football requires more than that.
If you're really emotional, you don't find the way to success.
Defeat teaches you much more than victory.
And I started to realize
it's more important to play with your head than with your heart.
I didn't lose again.
You've got to teach your players
you must play with your head and not just your heart.
I like being demanding of my players.
I think that's the key.
Success comes from this.
Knowing I wasn't playing was difficult to accept.
It was so important for me to be the number one keeper.
It was in my DNA.
So it really affected me mentally.
When things are going badly,
if players are crestfallen and resigned to their fate,
you've got to provide them with a solution.
Any substitution is a risk.
If it works, you're a genius. If it doesn't, you've made a mistake.
We make videos of all the games,
and we analyze everything that happens on the pitch.
We want to correct a lot of things.
Football is an emotional sport.
But as a coach, you've always got to be focused on your job,
and not waste a lot of energy on the noise around you.
They thought I was crazy.
But I knew that
my way of working and doing things
has led me to success.
Players who don't believe in what you're going to do,
you've got to give them belief.
As performances improved,
the players started to believe we could achieve something big.
Rafa came to me and said, ''Jerzy, you're back in business.''
I just told myself, ''You are ready.''
You can definitely feel the tension.
Everyone could feel it. Rafa, the players, the fans.
What I wanted was just to win.
I wanted to win for Liverpool.
And then because it was Chelsea,
and Mourinho was coach...
It's extra motivation, for sure.
The reality is that the goal was given. And that's that.
We are feeling great.
We have achieved the objective
we set ourselves at the beginning of the season.
Being here in Istanbul for the final.
When you initially join a team, in this case Liverpool,
you learn things as you go.
And I started to realize what it means
for the fans, for the city, and the emotions behind it all.
Part of our responsibility is to make people feel pride.
So many moments of weakness and so much criticism,
but here came an opportunity to change everything.
It was clear that the team was distraught.
I hear them, but I'm focused on what I have to do now.
We have 15 minutes to change things.
Rafa started scribbling on the whiteboard.
You hear the referee knocking on the door, calling you for the second half.
It was happening so fast that I could barely follow.
We wanted to show why we're here. Stand together and try to do something.
I started to realize, while it's important to play with your head,
you must never forget to play with your heart.
It was seconds, milliseconds.
I thought to myself, "How did I save that?"
All the criticism I came under,
I had waited for this moment until the very end.
He just started pushing me.
He started shouting.
I remember it to this day when I close my eyes.
I see him wearing his green jersey and red shorts,
and trying to distract the opponent.
Rafa, when it came to statistics, was the best.
We had a code.
The goal was divided into six squares.
He shared this information.
"Andriy Shevchenko likes 1 and 4."
It's not like I don't feel the emotions.
It's just difficult to express
because there are so many emotions.
You feel pride, you feel satisfaction.
You feel special.