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Real Madrid Player Profile: Marcelo
Full Name: Marcelo Vieira da Silva Júnior
Height: 5ft 7 inch
Weight: 73kg
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Age: 22
Formal Education: NA
Preferred Position: Left Back
Preferred foot: Left
Strengths:
- Speed
- Acceleration
- Ability on the ball
- Attacking mindset
- Dribbling
- Shooting
- Tackling
Weaknesses:
- General defending
- Positional sense
- Discipline
- Work ethic
- Passing
- Vision
- leadership skills
- sometimes tries too hard which ultimately hurts the team
Matches played for Real Madrid: 112
Goals scored: 8
Notes:
I must admit I was deeply skeptical about Marcelo when I saw him playing for Real Madrid in the first 2 to 3 months of his arrival. People hailed him as the next Roberto Carlos and I did not see anything, apart from him being left footed, which reminded of Roberto Carlos, but he has improved a lot in the past year or so and has become a regular at Real Madrid. I think, he can develop a lot more given his age and experience at the big stage (which he has a lot of given his age). At 22 he already has played over 100 games for Real Madrid and that is quite something.
A lot players have come and gone, as is always the case at Real Madrid, but Marcelo has been able to survive. I don’t know how, I always wanted Real Madrid to get rid of him but only tolerated his series of poor performances because of his age and I hoped he would develop into something useful for Real Madrid.
Well, he has developed and thankfully Mourinho is not looking to get rid of him but Mourinho does realizes his weaknesses and that is his instinctive play. Quaresma got the tough end of Mourinho’s character as according to Mourinho, Quaresma did not listen well. Quaresma is another player, like Marcelo, though plays at a totally different position but is on the same level, as far as mentality goes, as Marcelo.
Both play instinctively and give rather little to the overall performance of the team. Mourinho does not like this, may be Marcelo will improve his mental game in the coming year. One thing he has done is, he has improved his technical game a lot.
He does not looses the ball so often as he used to but mind you, he is still no where near a Roberto Carlos. He is a mini version of Roberto Carlos. He has everything Roberto Carlos had, but if Roberto Carlos abilities are scaled to 10 then Marcelo would get a 5 or 6 in every department.
My only concern is his mental prowess. He does not seem to learn. Often gets out of position or tries to tackle to early which leads him vulnerable to one on one situations and quite often gets beat because of his eagerness to tackle early.
Anyway, hope Marcelo gets a reasonable amount of playing time under Mourinho so that he may fulfill his dream of becoming the next Roberto Carlos which is going to be tough ask from Marcelo.
