MADRID, 8 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Real Madrid and Santiago Bernabéu honored Brazilian Marcelo Vieira on Saturday, who announced this week his withdrawal from professional football, at 36, and who received the love of the entire Madrid fief as one of the club’s legends.
With a Bernabéu delivered and standing, Marcelo jumped to the grass of the Madrid fief a few minutes before the start of the derby between Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid. Completely black, he did not stop thanking his hand in his heart for more than four minutes of applause and songs of the stands, who thus recognized one of his legends.
The former left side, next to his children, received from Croatian Luka Modric, current Madrid captain, a signed framed shirt, with which he was photographed accompanied by the current Real Madrid squad.
The Brazilian announced on Thursday his withdrawal from professional football at 36, putting his “story as a player”, although he said, after defending Fluminense, Brazil and Real Madrid shirts, a club with which he raised 25 titles , that “still” has “left to give football.”
“My story as a player ends here. But I still have a lot to give football. Thank you for so much,” said the former leftist in a video posted on his social networks, in which he reviewed his career and the passage through Real Madrid, Fluminense and the ‘Canarinha’.
Marcelo confessed that his “love for football” comes for his grandfather, which “did everything possible” so that the Brazilian was a professional footballer. “With 18 years, Real Madrid knocked on my door and I came here. I can say that I am a Madrid It is a different club.
The former soccer player arrived at Real Madrid in January 2007 from Fluminense and left after the 2021-2022 season already turned into a club legend, after a 16-year stay, with many more lights than shadows.
Raising the ‘thirteenth’, Marcelo ended a cycle full of successes in which he can boast of having won 25 titles -the room with more trophies in the history of the club -in 546 matches wearing the white shirt -the 13th with more games in the Madrid team.
He always had a special communion with the demanding Madrid fans, which grew even in his last year, in which he had less prominence (he played just over 800 minutes), thanks to how he has managed his role more than secondary and his fidelity and loyalty To the white team. What resulted in love with the Brazilian by the white parish, who always had his joy and self -confidence in both inside and outside the grass.
Marcelo wanted to renew, but the club understood that sports needs are ahead and trusted Ferland Mendy for his project without the side that made the historical Brazilian Roberto Carlos forget. The French and the Portuguese Fabio Coentrao, only in the 2013-2014 season, were the only ones who dared to interfere in their ‘dictatorship’ on the left side.