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Marcelo praises Zinedine Zidane and Cristiano Ronaldo!

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Free of any contract since the end of his short adventure with Olympiakos, Marcelo spoke to ESPN about his career and in particular his time at Real Madrid. Invited to speak about the best coach he has worked with at the Merengue, the Brazilian wanted to praise Zinédine Zidane:

“The best speeches were those of Mourinho, a coach specializing in headaches. It turned me into someone aggressive, a brawler… In group management, I stay with Zizou, because there was a time when Kiko Casilla played 25 games and Keylor Navas was smiling on the bench. He made everyone happy. Carlo kept his calm way. We scored a goal and we were always calm. C was very good for me to have him now, in the situation I was in, captain of the team, but he prefers to play with someone else, and that’s normal, and he told me helped with this issue.”

He took the opportunity to come back to this rather special last season:

“I knew I was not a starter and I said: what can I do to help the team? I was disappointed not to play, of course. There are no players who will tell you that he is happy to be on the bench. And if he says yes, he is lying, it is impossible. I trained to the maximum because I always wanted to compete with Dani (Carvajal) and Lucas (Vazquez ). I helped my teammates by participating in training and I felt very useful. My way of being and my joy also contributed a lot. I felt like a winner too. It’s weird to be captain and not playing, that the coach doesn’t count on you, but this season has been the best because I’ve learned a lot as a human being.”

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Marcelo also spoke about the departure of Cristiano Ronaldo:

“When we start playing football we know it’s not forever. It’s clear he doesn’t have the speed he had before, but he can play for any team in the world. “He always gave his teams the best. We’re talking about a player who was in the FIFA XI in a row for 17 years.”

Finally, he named the players who surprised him the most:

“I had the chance to play for Madrid and see the best. In every training session I said ‘how did he do that!!!’ The three that surprised me the most are: Toni Kroos, Rodrygo and Modric Kroos, because I don’t know what’s going on in his head, it looks like he’s in his world and he does amazing back checks, he can dribble with control at the players who come from behind, I’ve never seen anyone else do that. The other one is Rodrygo, the typical player who was born with natural gifts, he dribble with his body… He’s the fake slow, because he is very quick with the ball. And the other one is Luka Modric, there are no words. You can’t imagine what Luka is going to do with the ball. One day Rodrygo, Lucas Vázquez and I was on the bench and Luka came in from the middle and came to recover a ball, in the corner, locked in… He dribbled without touching the ball and whoever scored him did it I don’t know where he was.”

To sum up

Marcelo, the former left side of Real Madrid, wanted to praise Zinédine Zidane and Cristiano Ronaldo. He also mentioned the three players who surprised him the most at the Merengue and we find Luka Modric, Toni Kroos and Rodrygo there.

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