Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk is excited about what lays ahead of him in 2022.
After so long out with injury, Van Dijk, who will captain the Netherlands at the World Cup later this year, is relishing the rush of challenges flying towards him.
"I have nothing to prove," he told the Daily Mail. "That's not because I feel I am the best version of myself. It's more that I know I can get better.
"I just want to go out there, play the best football I can with this beautiful club I am playing for on the highest level and I want to give it my all, try to win trophies, try to compete, to get success.
"I am not training each and every day to go out and lose games. I am trying to win games and trophies and get success, with Liverpool and the national team.
"Those are things I want to give everything for and if it works, I am proud and happy and in tears, like I was at the Champions League because those are things you shouldn't take for granted. I cried when we won the Premier League, too.
"When you are a little boy watching these competitions, those are the things you dream about.
"You wish to be able to play in those leagues but it never crossed my mind back then I would be able to lift these two trophies or be the captain of the national team but here I am and I am enjoying it and I am giving everything I have got and if that brings trophies at the end of the season that makes me happy, my family happy, the fans happy, the club and team happy.
"If it doesn't, I am still happy and satisfied with my life. I come from a little boy who had a dream to become a professional football player, I have made it and that's what I am happy with. In general, I am happy anyway. I am grateful. I am blessed."
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