Kaka keen to see out career in Milan

AC Milan playmaker Kaka has spoken of his desire to remain with the club for the rest of his career after signing an extension to his contract.

The 25-year-old Brazilian, who this week added two years to his contract which keeps him with the Rossoneri until the summer of 2013, also said he expects to recover from a knee injury and play against Arsenal in Tuesday’s Champions League last-16 second-leg clash.

Kaka said to AC Milan Channel: “This hasn’t been a good period for me, physically I haven’t been doing too well over the last month. The knee, the knock the other day... Physically I’m not at my best.

“But this week I’ve had the chance to work a lot, also physically. That was useful for me.

“I’m working hard to get in good form on Tuesday and do everything that people expect from me.

“Against Arsenal it will be a special match – I imagine a sold out San Siro.

“I remember Milan-Celtic of last year. In the end that turned out to be an unforgettable match, let’s hope it will be the same on Tuesday.”

Kaka has no doubt in his mind he has made the right choice by pledging his future at the Rossoneri.

He said: “I remember that a year ago Milan Channel also asked me if I wanted to stay at Milan for life. In that circumstance I did not yet have the confidence but today I do.

“Now I can say it and I want to. I want to stay a Rossonero for the rest of my career. I want to stay here for life.”

Kaka, the reigning FIFA World Footballer of the Year, has been linked with Real Madrid and Chelsea in the past two seasons.

“I remember the last two summers well, full of pressures, ’Ricky goes, Ricky stays’,” he said. “My renewals have always come at difficult times, like it happened in the summer of 2006 during ’calciopoli’.”

AC Milan were handed an eight-point deduction in the 2006-07 campaign for their involvement in a match-fixing scandal.

“That’s why back then I did not give the answer I am able to give now,” Kaka said. “I apologise for that, but I simply did not feel like I was ready to make such a commitment.

“But everything is different now, and I can say it without a doubt and with a lot of joy.

“This is my fifth season at Milan. I want to become a symbol, a flag, and one day a captain of this club.”