AC Milan legend Rino Gattuso has told Morocco World Cup star Sofyan Amrabat: You moved me.

The Valencia coach admits he was left excited by the Fiorentina midfielder's impact in Qatar.

Gattuso told AS: "It's been a long time since I've seen a player like me, but I saw him at the World Cup: Amrabat. He moved me a lot, he looked like me when I was playing at 27. Life was so much better when I was playing, as a manager you just don't have that.

"I have to thank my wife, I don't know how she is still with me, but somehow I have to change, because you can't spend 18 or 19 hours thinking about football."

Of his playing days, Gattuso said: "I ran a lot and tactically I was very strong but surely in modern football I would be missing something. I had character, but the way I like to play, having character is not enough. Now I see football in a totally different way compared to when I was playing.

"If you look at the Milan or Napoli games when I was there, we didn't press in attack. It's the first year I've done that in Valencia."