REAL MADRID LEGEND | MARCELO

25 titles for Real Madrid, including 5 Champions Leagues, 4 Club World Cups, 3 European Super Cups, 6 La Ligas, 2 Copa del Rey and 5 Spanish Super Cups. 546 games, 38 goals and 103 assists. 

Six times in FIFA'S best team of the year. Whan an amazing career. Farewell, Marcelo. 

The greatest left back in the history of the game has retired from football. We will miss you and we will not forget you 🥹🤍

REAL MADRID LEGEND CONFIRMS RETIREMENT FROM PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL

• Marcelo announces retirement from playing career

• Legendary left-back enjoyed incredible success with Real Madrid

• 36-year-old left Fluminense in November 2024

Marcelo has called time on his career / Laurence Griffiths/GettyImages

Former Real Madrid left-back Marcelo has announced his retirement from professional football.

The 36-year-old earned a reputation as one of the greatest left-backs of all time during his 15-year spell with Madrid, which began all the way back in 2007 when the La Liga giants recruited him from Fluminense.

During his time in Spain, Marcelo racked up an enormous 546 appearances for the club in all competitions, becoming the club's first foreign captain in over 100 years as he won enough trophies to become Madrid's most successful player of all time.

Marcelo departed Madrid in 2022 with no fewer than 25 trophies in his cabinet - six LaLiga titles, five Champions Leagues, two Copas del Rey, five Spanish Supercopas, three UEFA Super Cups and four Club World Cups.

"At 18, Real Madrid knocked on my door and I arrived here," Marcelo said in a video on social media. "Now, I can proudly say that I am a true madrileno. Here, alongside my wife, I have built a family.

"16 seasons, 25 titles, five Champions Leagues, one of the captains and so many magical nights at the Bernabeu. What a journey!

"My journey as a player ends here, but I still have so much to give to football. Thank you for everything."

After leaving Madrid in 2022, Marcelo took his talents to Greek side Olympiacos, but he would last less than a year before making his emotional return to boyhood side Fluminense, where he helped the club win the Copa Libertadores before departing in November 2024.

- Tom Gott

MARCELO'S FLUMINENSE CONTRACT TERMINATED AFTER CLASH WITH COACH

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Former Real Madrid great Marcelo had his contract at boyhood club Fluminense terminated two months early on Saturday, one day after the defender's touchline spat with coach Mano Menezes.

The Brazilian club said in a statement that the decision was by mutual agreement.

"The institutional and emotional bonds between Fluminense and Marcelo remain untouched," Fluminense said.

Marcelo did not comment.

Last year, Marcelo won the Rio de Janeiro state championship and the Copa Libertadores titles with Fluminense, his first professional club before he joined Real Madrid at the end of 2006 at age 18. He won five Champions Leagues and six La Ligas at Madrid.

Marcelo's contract with boyhood club Fluminense has been terminated. Ruano Carneiro/Getty Images

Menezes was going to use the 36-year-old Marcelo as a substitute in the final minutes of Fluminense's clash against Gremio in a Brazilian league match. The defender appeared to dispute the coach's instructions, who decided to field striker John Kennedy instead.

Fluminense led 2-1 at the time, but Gremio scored from the spot shortly before the final whistle to equalize at the Maracana Stadium.

"I was going to bring Marcelo in at that time, but I heard one thing that I did not like and I changed my mind," Menezes said at a news conference. "He wasn't going in to solve any problem for us, he was stepping in to let us keep what we had [on the scoreboard]. It was just two, three minutes to the end."

Fluminense is 12th in the Brazilian league with 37 points from 32 matches.

- Associated Press

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