Eder Militao, with an open heart. The Real Madrid player breaks the armor in which he keeps the feelings and write what you feel, rather what you have felt throughout your race: from its beginnings to its arrival at Santiago Bernabu. he does it in The Players’ Tribune and sends the letter to his ‘other self’. He titles it: “Letter to My Younger Self”.
“Who would say, eh, der? You will play a Champions League final with Real Madrid. I still don’t know what the result of the match will be, but, if you allow me another piece of advice: play without fear of being happy, as if you were flying a kite in the street,” reads the text that Militao writes to himself.
If you allow me another tip: play without fear of being happy, as if you were flying a kite in the street
The boy to whom football… neither was nor did
The Real Madrid center-back remembers the beginning. “I know you’re the most introverted in your street, maybe the quietest kid in all of Sertozinho. And there’s more: even though your father is a former soccer player, I know that playing soccer doesn’t suit you very much,” he says.
Even though your father is an ex-soccer player, I know that playing soccer doesn’t suit you very much.
“Not even your own father knows how you handle a ball at your feet. You even hear him say something that will stick with you forever and make you and your friends laugh: ‘I don’t know if he plays well,'” he continues. The Players’ Tribune.
he missed his parents
Militao showed that he had class with the ball at his feet. But I suffered a lot. “You’re going to cry a lot, right. No, nobody is going to mistreat you, nobody is going to harass you, or anything like that. In Cotia, in Barra Funda or in Morumb, the coaches from the quarries will recognize your talent […] But your heart will not be at peace. And that instability, That insecurity has to do with how much you miss your parents”write.
You’re going to cry a lot, der
He even thought about giving up, hanging up his boots when he hadn’t even started. “There will be a day when you will think about giving up everything: you no longer want to be a professional soccer player; You no longer want to be away from your friends and family. But then your mother will ask you a question that only someone who knows you very well could ask: ‘Isn’t that what you want?'”
Then your mother will ask you a question that only someone who knows you very well could ask: ‘Isn’t that what you want?
Call with Brazil
“What the selection will bring you is the confirmation of a feeling that had already begun to well up in you”says Militao, who admits that a call to play with the lower categories of the ‘canarinha’ made him change his mind and love the ball a little more.
That’s where his growth began, his arrival at Porthis first games in the Champions League and his landing on the Santiago Bernabu.
The signing by Real Madrid
“That kid who didn’t give a damn about football getting into the plans of Real Madrid, the biggest club in the world […] At the time of the transfer, you will almost be signing for another top-tier team in world football. But when your father talks to you about Real Madrid’s proposal, you will hear that click again”Explain.
That kid who didn’t give a damn about football getting into Real Madrid’s plans
transformation in the field
Despite his shyness, Militao is another on the pitch. “Oh, you don’t have any friends. They may be your father or your mother on the other side… You hit them! And you grow before the forwards. Everyone will then know that Militao plays hard, but with loyalty, without being intimidated,” he comments in the letter.
In the country you have no friends. They may be your father or your mother on the other side… You hit them! And you grow before the forwards
Now that boy who didn’t know if he wanted to play football is going to play in the Champions League final against Liverpool… Luckily his mother asked him that question that day: “Is not that what you want?”. Well, yes, it was what the young Militao wanted: to play soccer.
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