Profile Marcelo Vieira

Personal information

Full name : Marcelo Vieira da Silva Júnior

Date of birth : 12 May 1988

Place of birth : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Height : 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)

Playing position : Left wingback

Current club : Real Madrid

Number : 12

Youth career :

2002–2005 Fluminense

Senior career :

2005–2006 Fluminense

2007– Real Madrid

National team :

2006– Brazil

2008 Brazil U23

Club career

Fluminense

Marcelo commenced playing futsal at the age of 9 and by the age of 13 he was on the journals of Fluminense. He draws close from a very poor setting and even deliberated quitting football, but his group deliberated him as one of their "Crown Jewels" and assured that he carried on playing.

Real Madrid

Marcelo united Real Madrid as long as the January convey window in 2007. On his attainment, group head Ramón Calderón said, "He is an valued noting for us. He is a youthful competitor who will inject some freshness into the boundary and is part of our arrange to carry less old players into the squad. We're very cheerful because he's a pearl that half of Europe wanted." Many spectators hailed him as Roberto Carlos' capability successor in the left-back role.

Marcelo as long as 2008–09 season

Marcelo made his debut as a replacement in the 2–0 overcome in resistance to Deportivo La Coruña on 7 January 2007. On 14 April 2007, then trainer Fabio Capello granted Marcelo his first start for Real Madrid in resistance to Racing de Santander. Real Madrid notoriously lost the game 2–1. In the 2007/08 time of the year, Marcelo had commenced close to all of Madrid's governing body recreational activities under the new director Bernd Schuster. His skills, tempo running through the paddock, assault, and vindication had empowered him to become a very valued competitor for Real Madrid.

After a string of poor performances in 2009, Marcelo encountered himself on the bench for much of the outstanding time of the year while under new director Juande Ramos, chiefly as deputy to the more defensive minded Gabriel Heinze. Juande Ramos positioned Marcelo as a striker on more than one function, and the Brazilian accommodated well to his new role. He counted his first objective after accepting a heel flick from striker Gonzalo Higuaín and slotting the ball past the goalkeeper in Real Madrid's 4–0 thumping of Sporting de Gijón. After the game, trainer Ramos resolved that Marcelo's future would be positioned as a striker, but will force back to vindicate when required. Marcelo counted his second objective for Real Madrid in their fresh win over Almeria, a strong beat from exterior of the packing box with his unconvincing right foot. On 18 April 2009 he counted his third objective of his Real Madrid line of work, when he counted the only objective of the game in resistance to Recreativo de Huelva away from home. He counted his fourth objective in resistance to Sevilla at the Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán in April 2009.

Under the next head trainer Manuel Pellegrini, Marcelo consistently included in the commencing eleven for his versatility and step along the left flank in assault and defensive roles. He carried on to be engaged in work as a left-winger under Pellegrini, and arrived at the apex of the give support visual shows of La Liga in the 2009/10 season. He accommodated in a press group debate at the end of 2009, "I now sense better playing as a striker." His winning recital in Madrid's 2009/2010 operation rake in him a bond widening on February 5, 2010 with the group until June 2015. In the prevailing 2010/11 time of the year under trainer Jose Mourinho, Marcelo has encountered himself back in his natural location of left-back. He has commenced all governing body recreational activities, compensating back the coach's self-confidence in him with defensive hard metal and assaulting intent.[8] On the 25th of November 2010, Marcelo was labelled as a part of the 55 competitor shortlist for the FIFA World XI.

International career

Marcelo's first savour of global football came at the youth level. He was called up for the 2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship and the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Marcelo counted on his Brazil debut in resistance to Wales at Tottenham Hotspurs' White Hart Lane (the counted closed 2–0). He chosen up the ball just exterior the Wales packing box and shot for a conventional Brazilian full back goal. Marcelo has become one of the had a preference options of Brazil's football trainer Dunga. Marcelo has freshly been weighed against to first Real Madrid and Brazilian countrywide assembly left-back Roberto Carlos. The two acted concurrently as long as the second half of the 2006–07 time of the year before Roberto Carlos' progress to Turkish assembly Fenerbahçe.

He was called up for the 2008 Olympic squad where he won a bronze medal. Marcelo was called up for the 12 August 2009 correspond in resistance to Estonia but had to extract due to injury. In May 2010, he was labelled as one of the seven players performing as backup for Brazil's 2010 FIFA World Cup squad. Despite Not being called up by first Brazil trainer Dunga he was picked over from new Brazil trainer Mano Menezes for a congenial in resistance to USA on August 10, 2010.