After winning his first title of Champions League, Marquinhos, Captain of PSG, highlighted the growth of the team with the arrival of Luis Enrique.
In addition, in a post-game interview, he evaluated as personal overcoming after the French team’s series of eliminations and defeats.
“It was amazing. Even before the game was over, tears have started to drain, thinking of everything we went through. It was 12 years here. I saw how much the club grew, how much matured. How many players passed, legends here, who didn’t get this trophy,” said Marquinhos.
From Ibrahimovic, the Brazilian was present in this whole process of PSG. He landed in the French capital in 2013, coming from Roma, after being revealed at the base of Corinthians.
Captain raises the cup
In 2020, with the departure of Thiago Silva from the team, he became the captain, a function he has been exercising since then.
So for Marquinhos, it was hard to hold on the emotion.
“I started thinking about everything really and just wanted to enjoy this moment. Because there were many sad interviews, having to explain the inexplicable. Having to try to take some word to describe that moment.”
Family support
After all the eliminations and difficult times, the defender had the support of the family to seek strength. That way he made a point of taking his daughters and his wife into the lawn.
“It was they who were on my side after all difficult times. So many eliminations, Champions, World Cup. For a player it is very difficult these moments. So we have to take advantage of the opportunities we have of finals, title. It is always very tasty,” he said.
Luis Enrique transformed PSG
The European achievement also has. Marquinhos understands that the arrival of the Spanish coach brought a new breath to the team. Even with losses and income falls in the first season, he saw Everest’s “top”.
“The club grew a lot. The team grew a lot. The coach came two years ago and brought new things, transforming the mindset,” he said.
Today we saw the aggressive way we play. The attackers running ahead, donating the most, facilitating our work back there. The team has become. Today’s result showed the strength of all that we worked to achieve, ”said Marquinhos.
“He believed much more on our team before we. In difficult times he said: People, calm down. We are on a good way. He always said that his goal was to climb Everest. This day we arrived at the top of Everest,” he said.
Brazilian party
Defenders Marquinhos and Lucas Beraldo thicken the list of Champions Champions Champions. Now there are 58 national athletes who have raised the “ear.”
This was the 20th following edition of the competition with at least one player from Brazil among the winners. The last European champion that had no names from Brazil was Liverpool in 2004/05.
Paris captain, Marquinhos, was even responsible for lifting the cup.
