Marcelo's Life and Career Journey in Football "Brazil's Best Left Back"

Marcelo Viera Da Silva Junior was born on May 12, 1988 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Marcelo was born from the couple Marcelo Viera Da Silva and Maria Da Silva. The father is a firefighter, while the mother is a former teacher. Marcelo has a sister named Julia Viera.

Marcelo grows in the Catete region of Rio De Janeiro. The hometown is known as a low-income population. Even Marcelo's parents belong to a poor family. His low-income parents were unable to fulfill all of Marcelo's desires.

Little Marcelo is known as a normal child and always looks happy even though his parents don't have much money. Seeing the economic condition of his parents Marcelo, who was not yet 10 years old, decided to look for money to help his family's economy.

Marcelo considers football as a way to get out of poverty. Marcelo then chose football as his way of life. Since childhood, Marcelo really loved football. He often plays soccer on the streets.

At the age of 9 years until age 13 years Marcelo had wrestled the world of futsal by joining the Fluminense club. Until the age of 14, Marcelo entered the Fluminense football academy.

On his way, Marcelo almost left football because he could not afford the bus transportation services that would take him to the training ground. But even so, his determination and desire to be able to overcome it all.

His club helped Marcelo a lot, they thought Marcelo was a talented player who had to be developed. Fluminense management often meets Marcelo's needs.

In addition, his grandfather, Senor Pedro, also often finances all of Marcelo's needs. For Marcelo, the grandfather was the most meritorious figure in his life. According to him, his grandfather did not even hesitate to pride himself as a child to the neighbors. The grandfather also often accompanied him when going to the training ground.

In fact, when Marcelo first got a salary from his soccer match, Marcelo gave all his money to his grandfather. However, Marcelo must lose his loved ones forever. The grandfather passed away in June 2014.

The ability by his amazing ball made Marcelo entered the Fluminense first team in 2005. In the same year Marcelo strengthened the Brazilian national team in the U-17 world cup, where the samba team managed to become runner up.

With a record of 30 matches and scored 6 goals with the Fluminense first team, Marcelo's ability is able to attract the interest of Spanish giants, Real Madrid. At the age of 18 years or precisely in January 2007, Real Madrid officially brought him to the Santiago Bernabeu.

Upon his arrival, club president Ramón Calderón said, "He is an important player for us. He is a young player who will inject freshness into the team and is part of our plan to bring young players into the squad. We are very happy because he is the pearl that some European clubs want. "

Many spectators praised Marcelo as a potential replacement for Roberto Carlos in the role of Madrid left-back. Marcelo's debut with Madrid came as a substitute in the 2-0 defeat against Deportivo La Coruña on 7 January 2007.

On April 14, 2007, coach Fabio Capello gave Marcelo minutes of play from the start for the first time Real Madrid played Racing Santander. In that match Real Madrid had to give up 2-1.

In the 2007/08 season, Marcelo began to get a chance since the early minutes under new manager Bernd Schuster. His ability, speed running across the field, attacking and defending have enabled him to become a very important player for Real Madrid.

In that season, Marcelo also recorded his first appearance in the European champions league against Werder Bremen on September 18, 2007. In that season, Marcelo recorded 32 matches in all competitions with Los Blancos.

Marcelo scored his first goal against Sporting Gijon when he brought Madrid to win 4 goals without reply in the La Liga season 2008/09. Overall in that season Marcelo posted 4 goals in all competitions from 34 appearances.

Subsequent seasons, Marcelo's game progressed, he also often scored goals in every season with Real Madrid, no less than 2 goals he managed to put in every season.

His slick play in the left-back sector also made him successful in becoming the first choice of the senior Brazilian team. His debut with the senior squad occurred when he was 18 years old in September 2006 against Wales in a trial match. Marcelo was part of the samba team when he won the 2008 Olympic bronze medal and the silver medal at the 2012 Olympics.

In April 2013, Marcelo was inaugurated as one of the new icons for the German sports brand, Adidas during a promotional event at the Bernabéu store, he performed the F50 adiZero and joined his Real Madrid teammates who also used the Adidas brand including Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema.

In the 2013/14 season, Marcelo became an important Madrid player when he won the champions league trophy. Marcelo scored Real Madrid's third goal in the 2014 Champions League Final against city rivals Atlético Madrid, in that match El Real won 4-1.

Then, Marcelo appeared at the 2014 World Cup with Brazil. At the tournament, Marcelo scored an own goal in the 11th minute in the opening match against Croatia on June 12, he deflected a shot from Nikica Jelavić for the tournament's first goal. That was the first own goal scored by Brazil in the World Cup.

At the event, Marcelo's role was irreplaceable in the Brazilian left back sector. The dream of Marcelo and his colleagues to win the world cup trophy at home vanished due to a 7-1 defeat in the semifinals against Germany. At the end of the tournament, the samba team had to settle for fourth place. Even so, Marcelo made it into the tournament's best team composition.

On 10 July 2015, Marcelo signed a new contract with Real Madrid until 2020. The following season Marcelo was able to score 2 goals in 41 appearances in all competitions, he again helped Madrid win the 11th champions league trophy.

Together with Real Madrid, Marcelo underwent a fairly successful career, since joining in 2007, his role was quite significant despite having had to compete with Fabio Coentrao in the left back sector.

During his career at the Santiago Bernabeu, Marcelo has won various titles, including four La Liga titles, four champions league trophies, 2 copa del rey titles, four inter-club world trophies, and three Spanish super trophies and European super trophies.

So far, Marcelo has scored 36 goals in 487 appearances in all competitions with Madrid. A score that is enough to be proud of for a defender. Some of his goals were scored because Marcelo was very diligent in helping Real Madrid's attack.

In his personal life, Marcelo married a lover he had known since long ago Clarice Alves in 2008. On September 24, 2009, their relationship was blessed with their first child, a son named Enzo Gattuso Alves Vieira. then their second son, Liam was born on September 1, 2015.

Just like most other footballers, Marcelo also has a number of tattoos, including his shirt number and birthday, the tattoo is on his left arm.

On the international stage, Marcelo has been the main left-back of Brazil since 2012. His best achievement was when he won the 2013 Confederations Cup title. Marcelo is still a mainstay of Brazil when appearing in the 2018 World Cup. Until now he has collected 6 goals from 58 matches with Sellecao .