Ex-Chelsea star, Gianfranco Zola has opened up on what he perceives to be the difference between the English Premier League and Italian football.

Zola played for Chelsea from 1996 to 2003, winning the FA Cup, and the FWA Player of the Year award while at Stamford Bridge.

Despite admitting that the Premier League is a difficult league to adapt to, the football manager insists it is the best because it taught him how to be physical and to never give up.

He told TMW during a chat in London: “In my opinion, an experience abroad is good regardless, you get to know a new language and a new culture.

“Then English football also taught me to be physical, to never give up. A particularity that struck me was the training sessions: they were like matches, fights, as if we were competing.

“The intensity with which we trained was something superior, there is an intensity that other championships don’t have.”