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The armored environment of elite athletes often ensures that they live in isolation from the noise of the press or social networks. That they go to theirs, that nothing affects them. But there are plenty of free hotel or airport times and the mobile phone burns in your pocket; The temptation to see Twitter or Instagram notifications is great.

Suddenly, one look, be Formula 1 champion or Real Madrid soccer player. And in the waterfall, honey and debris, of course, because everything emerges. Marcelo jokes about his physical condition ended last season, bothering him a lot. In the general disaster, subject a devouring line of Champions to fierce criticism, some players loaded with more clubs than others, questioned not only for their bad football. Santiago Solari was publicly indicated to the lane , as he passed by the bench, relieving him for the young Reguilón . “I could have ridden a noise, but I didn't. I preferred to work, ”said the Brazilian this summer, who saw the sky when Zinedine Zidane returned.

The return of ZZ

The French made him the headline from the beginning, in a show of confidence that served as an incentive. Already in the final stretch of last season, a special physical work plan began that culminated in August. Since June, five kilos has dropped the best left-back in the world in the last four years, according to FIFA. To the social networks, Marcelo just looked for revenge. There he began to be seen on summer vacations to show off radical body change.

His muscular torso, the abdominal tablet that Cristiano Ronaldo made so famous, became a trending topic . With his son Enzo posed in gardens and swimming pools, biceps up, ribs marked and tight the dorsals. There were no photoshop tricks, it was real, as the teammates and Zidane himself discovered when starting the preseason. A new Marcelo was in front of them, ready to recover his best version. In the white club the carioca is placed in the first line of key pieces of the successes of the last years. Goals, assists, overflow ... More forward than defender, key player in the Lisbon final, in the semifinals in Munich, in quarterfinals in Turin and on so many other nights of frac.

Duel against the scale

Strict diet, holiday training and lots of rest. At his side, as a relentless tutor, his brother-in-law Caio Alves , a family member who has become a close friend since playing futsal together in the lower categories of Fluminense, in Rio de Janeiro . One changed to the big ball taking many dribbles and steps of the small track and the other continued there doing professional career. In fact, he still plays in the second Spanish division, in the ranks of Soliss Talavera . On his back he wears 12 , like his famous relative. The two told their vital experience in a book published this year in collaboration with the Real Madrid Foundation : Method 12. Marcelo and Caio . Both also run a children's soccer, futsal and beach soccer camp in the south (in Getafe) in summer.

The effects of the remarkable physical improvement of the side of ZZ have been proven in the preseason and in the first League match, with an unbalanced Marcelo on the left-handed side. Upon the arrival of Mendy to that position, with a much more defensive profile, the Brazilian has responded with trade and duel won to the scale. Valdebebas also highlights his maturity in the captaincy, also wanting to overcome the image of music and joy with which he has always been identified.

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