{"id":1123145,"date":"2022-06-15T15:27:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T15:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/15\/marcelo-was-kidnapped-to-real-madrid-in-2006former-striker-and-sporting-director-reveal\/"},"modified":"2022-06-15T15:27:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T15:27:04","slug":"marcelo-was-kidnapped-to-real-madrid-in-2006former-striker-and-sporting-director-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/15\/marcelo-was-kidnapped-to-real-madrid-in-2006former-striker-and-sporting-director-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcelo was kidnapped to Real Madrid in 2006;Former striker and sporting director reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/e1753d9a02c94a4ba10cb01cce93fa57\"\/>Marcelo has brought an end to a 16-year journey at the Bernabeu after he helps Real Madrid to lift their fourteenth champions league title. The left-back is now the most successful player in the history of the club. Marcelo joined Real Madrid at a very young age from Fluminense in the year 2006, however it was never known how Real Madrid recruit him into their team.<\/p>\n<p>Former Real Madrid striker and Sporting director Predrag Mijatovic have revealed how Real Madrid came about as such a talented young player at that time and how they manage to get him from Brazilian club Fluminense.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/7a0b5a3e27ec4d139cfe28d9e97b486c\"\/><\/p>\n<p>According to the 1997 ball d&#8217;Or runner-up, Predrag Mijatovic, his friend who followed Brazilian football told him about Marcelo in 2006. &#8216;He said he was a little boy in Fluminense who has some similarities to Roberto Carlos&#8217;. Predrag Mijatovic later receive video clips of Marcelo from his friend and he was very much impressed.<\/p>\n<p>According to Predrag Mijatovic, they practically kidnapped Diego Marcelo and his agent to Madrid because he was wanted by many other clubs in Europe.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/a166bc577baf4debab3a0e44cdb23306\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid, believes in Marcelo&#8217;s qualities and they know he would have been a great player someday so they had to go that extra mile to get the boy at the Bernabeu. Diego Marcelo has had a successful career in Spain and he is the best left-back we have seen in the last two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: GAsports (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nDiego Marcelo<br \/>\nMadrid<br \/>\nPredrag Mijatovic<br \/>\nReal Madrid<br \/>\nSporting<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcelo has brought an end to a 16-year journey at the Bernabeu after he helps Real Madrid to lift their fourteenth champions league title. The left-back is now the most successful player in the history of the club. Marcelo joined Real Madrid at a very young age from Fluminense in the year 2006, however it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1123146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[17741,1749,11942,554,17742,555,7572,5120,4573],"class_list":["post-1123145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-2006former","tag-director","tag-kidnapped","tag-madrid","tag-marcelo","tag-real","tag-reveal","tag-sporting","tag-striker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}