Left back Marcelo announced his football retirement. At 36, the idol of Fluminense and Real Madrid published a video on social networks, this Thursday (6), to announce the decision. “My story as a player ends here, but I still have a lot to give football,” said the now former player.>
Marcelo had been without a club since the termination of a contract with Fluminense, made official on December 2 last year. The trigger for the departure of Tricolor Carioca was a public disagreement with coach Mano Menezes, on the edge of the lawn. At the time, the player complained that the coach would be wanting to do average with the fans, by touching his arm on the edge of the lawn.>
“The fact that Marcelo was not an isolated case. No direction makes any decision (on the edge of the countryside) because of a single case. That was the drop of water,” the coach explained in an interview with Radio Grenal, without entering into details about the episodes.>
In this passage through Fluminense, he participated in the achievements of Recopa South American and Copa Libertadores, unpublished titles for the club, in addition to the Carioca Championship, in 2023. He scored one of the goals in the decision with Flamengo, in a 4-1 rout. “Winning a Libertadores with Fluminense does not pay what I lived back there, when I was 15 years old. It’s a kind of eternal debt, and I like it. It’s gratitude,” said the side, in an interview with the warrior chat podcast.
Marcelo was revealed by Fluminense in 2005 and moved to Real Madrid the following season – where he remained for 15 years. In Spain, he consolidated himself as one of the best players in the world’s left-back position. There were more than 500 games for the meringue club and dozens of titles.>
Among them, on five opportunities won the Champions League. In the last, in 2021/2022, he raised the trophy as a captain – becoming the first Brazilian to perform the feat since the competition was played in the 1950s>
In his period in Spain, he formed a successful partnership with Cristiano Ronaldo, who became friendship outside the pitch, and even became the player with the most titles in the club’s history. Won the Spanish Championship six times and on four occasions the Club World Cup.>
