Posted on December 1, 2021 at 11:15 am by BC
Since the departure of Thiago Silva, Marquinhos has inherited the captain's armband. A difficult task considering the stars who make up the PSG squad, like Lionel Messi, but the Brazilian is showing no pressure.
At 27, Marquinhos has already marked the history of PSG with 338 matches on the clock. The Brazilian logically inherited the captain's armband after Thiago Silva left in 2020, a difficult task for a young player given the large number of stars in the workforce Parisian. During the last summer transfer window, Sergio Ramos or even Lionel Messi came to strengthen PSG , not enough to scare the Parisian defender. Asked about the subject in the “Hors Terrain” podcast available on Amazon Music, Marquinhos is particularly charmed by Lionel Messi .
“Messi? He is a person I adore “
” How do you handle a Messi or a Neymar as captain? It’s no different from other players. It depends on your relationship with that person. With Ney, I have more freedom, we talk about things because we have a different bond. With Messi, he's a person I adore, even more since I see him every day. I try to be an example by word but also by deeds, a captain must be the first to show the example, in training, in match, in motivation, in energy, in speech and decisions, ”says Marquinhos .