Marcos Paulo does not 'take off' the Atlético shield yet

The Atletico Madrid will return this July 7 to training. It will be a somewhat atypical preseason, with few new faces and many players who will have to make merits and show a lot.

One of them is Marcos Paul, which closed a really complicated first year in Europe. He was on loan at Famalicao Portuguese after arriving at the ‘Old continent’ with the vitola of being one of the great promises of football in his country.

The fact is that the matter was frustrating for him. With little prominence for the coach of the Portuguese team, Rui Pedro Silvathe striker disappeared from the map in the middle of the season to go down to the team’s subsidiary, the Sub-23, with whom he only played two games. The coach even publicly gave the player a touch for his work.

His balance of the season is summarized in 991 minutes between the first team and the subsidiary of Famalicãowith a single goal, against Vitória de Guimaraes, in a qualifying match for the Revelation Cup. He participated in 22 games, only ten as a starter (two of them with the second team). His last game dates back to February 12, with the Sub-23. Since then he was not even summoned, neither by the first nor by the second.

Marcos Paulo, soccer player for Atlético de Madrid.

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For him, the preseason of this course is especially important. In the previous one he already paid for the hazing. And this time he did not want it to be repeated. He knows the demand Diego Simeone and of Professor Ortega In the preparation. Hence, he has been training in his country for some time, dressed in the training shirt of the Atlético. Quite a sign.

HARD WORK IN BRAZIL

He is doing it accompanied by his friend Kayky da Silva Chagas, also a footballer from the quarry of Fluminensewho currently plays for Manchester City. Both supervised by Igor Cotrimwho is a physical trainer for Fluminenseclub in which the two players played.

Marcos Paul wants to prove things in the preseason, starting with Simeone. And if he does not leave, at least arrive in the best conditions at the club where he seeks minutes in the next season.