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PSG: in Copa America, Marquinhos also guides Brazil

2021-07-03T02:23:01.501Z


In the Copa America quarter-final against Chile, on the night of Friday to Saturday (2 hours), the central defender will once


Since he inherited the captain's armband at PSG, following Thiago Silva, Marquinhos wears that of Brazil with a legitimacy that does not suffer from any dispute.

And this is no small feat for the central defender in a selection where this attribute has often turned.

In the spring of 2019, Neymar had lost the armband in the wake of a slap against a spectator after the Coupe de France final lost against Rennes.

This Friday evening (Saturday at 2 a.m., French time, live on the website of L'Équipe), Marquinhos will again be the pillar of Brazil who faces Chile in the quarter-finals of the Copa America.

During the four meetings of the group stage which followed the qualifying matches for the 2022 World Cup, Marquinhos, 27, was established three times in central defense, twice alongside Eder Militao and once, against Colombia (2-1) with… Thiago Silva, former holder of the armband, especially during the failure of the 2014 World Cup.

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The latter did not fail to say all the good he thinks of his former partner who did not actually wait to wear the armband to have a leadership attitude.

"Marquinhos?

It speaks for itself… I played for seven years alongside him, he taught me a lot even though he was younger than me!

He seems to be my age (

Editor's note: 36 years old

).

He is very intelligent.

He is a player who is in the top 3 defenders in the world.

He should be in the Fifa national team.

He does things that players his age usually don't.

"

The World Cup in the back of his mind

After brandishing the Coupe de France, he joined his selection with envy after being deprived of a reunion last February because of sanitary conditions. He even made himself a scorer, as he did many times this season, in the first match against Venezuela (3-0).

Often referred to as an “exemplary” captain, Marquinhos first wore the armband with Brazil in 2017. He then became the youngest of the thirteen captains to have been nominated by Titus. If he gave it up, subsequently, over the competitions and the ups and downs of the often hectic life of the Auriverde selection, and even if at the beginning of June, it was still Casemiro who had the armband during the first of the two matches. qualification for the 2022 World Cup, it is the Parisian who then resumed his status. Naturally it was he who spoke in the name of the group to justify the renunciation of a possible boycott of the Copa America.

While waiting to be able to go on vacation before returning to PSG where Sergio Ramos will perhaps await him, Marquinhos is delighted to find knockout matches where he ensures that Brazil arrives with "confidence and experience" . He would like to succeed a former Parisian, Dani Alves, captain who won the Copa America in 2019 against Peru (3-1). He will then be able to consider a 2021-2022 season where he dreams of being the one who would first lift the Champions League and then the World Cup. A hell of a program. But we can count on him to be ready for the challenge.

Source: leparis

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