The latest issue of the official UEFA magazine, uefadirect, features MFA president Dr Joseph Mifsud, who is also an executive committee member of the European football body since 1994.

He is the seventh in a series which will feature all the executive committee members of UEFA. They are asked 11 questions which they have to answer.

Among Mifsud’s replies was that he had become interested in the game of football thanks to the Italian State TV channel RAI, though, as a child, he had also played for his team Qrendi FC.

Dr Mifsud told uefadirect that his first experience of UEFA was in 1984 when he represented the MFA during a congress in Paris. In his opinion, Pele was the greatest player ever. “He had it all: speed, imagination, technique. He was the greatest,” he said.

Dr Mifsud also said that the most memorable match remains the Manchester United-Bayern Munich (Champions League final) in Barcelona, in particular the last five minutes.

He also mentioned an anecdote in connection with this match. He said: “It was about our president (UEFA boss Lennart Johansson) at that Barcelona match. He had come down ready to hand Bayern Munich the cup, then took the lift back up because extra time was looming, and was then promptly told to come back down and present it to Manchester United.”

In the interview, he also said Rome was his favourite city. “It is an amazing mix of the old and the new, artistically combined,” he added.

At the end of the interview, he also said his dream was to see a united footballing family that includes the big clubs, in which everyone works for the good of the sport.