"I cried all night but I maintain we did not fail, we just did not give a good account of ourselves. I haven't spoken in detail with my team-mates about the World Cup, but I do not believe we deserved to lose against England.
"They were not better than us, but Argentina did not play well. We could have drawn, but I never thought we wouldn't go through, although I felt inside that the squad was not playing as well as we had done in qualifying.
"I always thought we would do well. I played badly in the World Cup. The prize was great and there was much to win."
"In the summer I liked to walk alone at night. I seemed like a lunatic, but in this time I had a chance to think a lot about what has happened. I don't know if the pain of last season was erased and the problems could, one day, return.
"I spoke little; I isolated myself and tried to stay alone in my thoughts. It was hard but not as hard as for someone who rises at five in the morning to go looking for work."
There will be few better opportunities for Veron to announce his return to form than in an Old Trafford friendly on Saturday against his former side, Boca Juniors.