At the moment when he rose high, so high in the sky of Lisbon, under the surprised gaze of five German defenders, and that he propelled to the bottom of the nets, with an uncrossed head, the offering of Angel Di Maria, Marquinhos scolded the PSG supporters with pleasure and… made his wife cry. As in the quarter-final against Atalanta Bergamo a week earlier, the Brazilian midfielder scored his side's first goal and led the way to the next echelon.
So, from her home where she was following the meeting with their two children, Carol Cabrino, Marquinhos' wife, took her smartphone to film her emotion and share it on Instagram. Tears in her eyes, taking her head, she cried out before falling backwards on the living room sofa, as if jostled by the weight of the emotion and the history being written.
The Brazilian, followed by more than 3 million people, and his wife are followers of social networks. But Marquinhos is above all the keystone player of PSG Thomas Tuchel who brought him up from central defense to midfield where he considers him even more valuable. And now, he is the one who will have largely contributed to send Paris a little closer to the European summit. Of course Neymar or Angel Di Maria will also have illuminated the Parisian evening at the Stade de la Luz. But "Marqui", by the importance of the status of captain which is promised to him at the end of the departure of the current holder of the armband, Thiago Silva, puts on wonderfully the habit of the symbol of a team in pursuit of his crazy dream.
The present and the future of the club
"I find that he gives off something - I don't know if it's leadership - which makes him impose by his performances and by his personality, always very calm, very measured", confided Alain Roche, the former Parisian captain a few weeks ago. This Tuesday he scored his sixth goal in the Champions League, his fourth from the head!
Under contract until 2024, Marquinhos is both the present and the future of the club. “Leonardo announced it when he returned in June 2019: Marquinhos is the figurehead of PSG, also recalls Alain Roche. We did not wait for Thiago Silva to stop to tell himself that he was the next captain. "
After his goal, Marquinhos flew again for a most joyful aerial torso against torso with Neymar. How far it seems his discreet arrival in Europe, in 2012, from Brazil and the Corinthians to join AS Rome. He was only 19 when he arrived in Paris, in 2013. He grew up with Paris, in maturity and in authority. He is now captain of Brazil and vice-captain of a team that he intends to help win the Champions League this Sunday evening. And so to flow other tears of joy.
