Marcelo Vieira and his Grandfather

Hello friends of Steemit, especially those passionate about football, I hope you feel very well and that all your investments continue to grow. In this opportunity I will tell you a little about a great player who today is a star in his current team and one of the great figures in his country.

I'm talking about Marcelo Vieira da Silva Junior, born on May 12, 1988 in Rio de Janeiro, is a Brazilian player nationalized in Spain and one of the great figures of Real Madrid internationally recognized for his quality and agility with the ball.

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Like the majority of the most renowned Brazilian greats, he grew up in a very humble neighbourhood and showed his interest in the ball from a very young age. In the words of the same player, all his journey and victories are owed to his grandfather Pedro Vieira, who always support the little one because he was also a footballer.

On the other hand his mother who was a teacher in a public school in Rio de Janeiro was upset because the little boy did not pay attention to his studies to play with the ball. However, his grandfather defended him and supported the little one so that he could do what he liked best. His grandfather was a bank driver and an office clerk, and every time he received a paycheck for his work he allocated a large part of the money so that his grandson could practice and play football.

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His beginnings were very difficult in economic terms, as his grandfather believed in him and supported him the most. The player relates that once he did not have money for transportation to a training just when they decided who the players would be at the Fluminense football club, the money he needed was 13 reales, but his grandfather only had 2. It was then when little Marcelo promised his grandfather to give him a real and get the 13 he needed.

Indeed his grandfather gave it to him but thought it was to buy some candy, but it was not so, he decided to go to a bar where there was a machine and saw that older people put the coins to try some luck selecting a country in the world. When he stood in front of the machine when introducing the coin he selected the country of Croatia, in a miraculous way the boy managed to earn 25 reais, enough to pay for his transport even on the way back he bought a soft drink and a hamburger for him and his grandfather.

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Today he considers that this was a decisive moment as he stayed in the club and from there his career was only in promotion. As he grew up he showed more interest in futsal, but it was his grandfather who convinced him after several matches to play futsal.

At the age of 18 he was fictitious of Real Madrid and although his beginnings were not as expected by the board, he faced one of the biggest decisions of his life. Go on loan to another team, but inside he knew that he was not going to grow as he would in Real Madrid, again his grandfather was his motivation who convinced him to continue fighting and improving within the club. He trained very hard and acquired the experience that the club wanted him to have, every day he improved until he became the great player he is today.

After a long and hard battle against a bone marrow cancer his grandfather died at 78 years of age in a hospital in Rio de Janeiro in 2018, just when the World Cup was disputed in that country and where his grandson was one of the great figures.

In one of his arms is tattooed the name of his grandfather, who kisses after a victory or goal scoring, in his honor and gratitude for that unconditional love he always held.

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