Fifth champion with the Brazilian team in 2002 and unbeaten champion of Premier League with Arsenal, former midfielder Gilberto Silva was thrilled to remember the first steps in football and reflected in an interview with CNN Sports S/Aabout the meaning of continuing contributing to the sport that changed your life.
“It’s hard when we have to talk about us. When I remember where I came from, it’s hard not to think about my parents, my sisters, where I left, my little village that no longer exists, where I grew up playing football on the street, at school, with friends,” said Gilberto.
Career
The steering wheel’s trajectory began discreetly in América-MG, until emerging at Atletico-MG. But it was in 2002, in winning the World Cup with the Brazilian team, that the name of became known worldwide.
Three years later, he lived another glory by being key to the historic season of The invincible (Invincible), when the English club won the Premier League title unbeatenly.
Gilberto still has tickets for Greek football, with Panathinaikos, as well as returning to Brazil to wear the shirt of Grêmio and Atletico-MG himself.
FIFA recognition
Today, retired from the lawns, the former midfielder continues to act in another football sphere: Gilberto became ambassador to. The former athlete celebrated the recognition of the top entity of world football.
“It is very gratifying to have this recognition of the largest soccer institution in the world. I think that, in this regard, I have done a great job. I think his view, to bring those who contributed so much to the sport, to reinsert them inside football, is very positive, to make us playing in another field-but still contributing to football,” he said.
I think to look at all this is to have gratitude to God, all the people who contributed with me, who are with me on this journey. I fell in love with a soccer ball, and this ball became my life mate – and transformed it
Gilberto Silva
CNN Sports S/A
With Gilberto Silva, it reaches the 94th edition. Presented by João Vitor Xavier, the program addresses the backstage of a billion market and is one of the most profitable in the world: sport.
On the agenda, the hottest subjects in the industry in the world of the ball, from the perspective of economics and business.
