Marcelo Shares Lessons Learned from Mourinho

Former Brazilian defender Marcelo recalled his time working with Jose Mourinho at Real Madrid and spoke about the way the coach helped him. "During training, Mourinho asked me: 'Why weren’t you called up for the World Cup in South Africa?' At that time, I was young and somewhat arrogant.

So I replied that perhaps the coach didn’t want me. But Mourinho told me directly: 'No, that’s not the case.

You weren’t called up because you played poorly. But I’m going to teach you how to play better.' He really taught me a lot.

Thanks to him, I began playing more aggressively and understood that as a defender, my first responsibility is to defend, while attacking is secondary," Marcelo said. It is worth noting that Marcelo was with Real Madrid from 2007 to 2022.

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