teammates: Raul, [Ruud] Van Nistelrooy and Roberto Carlos and they helped me a lot settling in. Raul was already a legend and he had a huge impact on me because he helped me and gave me the opportunity to be his successor.

"I got there in January and we were 14 points behind Barcelona and we were not playing well, but we caught up with Barca and it was at that moment that I knew we would win the league."

That 2006-07 title was the first of three he won at Real, although he has yet to win Serie A. He would happily delay his first Scudetto by a year if it would mean winning a first Champions League title, however.

"I would prefer to win something huge with this time,Vascularized periosteum associated with cancellous bone graft: an experimental study.
The association of a vascularized periosteal flap with a cancellous bone graft was studied on a group of 20 Wistar rats. Ten rats were sacrificed at 6 weeks and seven at 12 weeks (three died prematurely). The behavior of the cancellous bone graft buried in striated muscle and the osteogenic capacity of a simple vascularized periosteal flap also were observed on the same animals. Results of the study are as follows: In 14 of 17 animals, a vascularized periosteal flap wrapped around a cancellous bone graft resulted in new cortical bone formation with little resorption of the initial cancellous graft. A vascularized musculoperiosteal flap has produced a small amount of new compact bone only in 4 of 17 animals.