Born in Brazil and with over 9 million followers on his social networks, the footballer received warm congratulations from the “dragons” from the first hour.
Central defender Képler Laveran Lima Ferreira “Pepe” turned 38 on February 26. After making three champions With Real Madrid, the captain of the “goalkeeper” has a dream: to win the fourth Champions League.
He returned to the Portuguese club in January 2019, has a contract until 2023 and to fulfill his desire to raise his fourth orejona he will have to leave his friend Cristiano Ronaldo in the gutter, with whom He has already won 3 Champions at Real Madrid and with which he lifted the European Championship in France with the Portuguese team.
In the first stage of the round of 16 they gave the surprise and porto defeated Juventus 2-1 Cristiano. Return, next March 9th.
Born in Brazil, with dual Brazilian and Portuguese nationality and with over 9 million followers on its social networks, the football player received from the first hour of today the warm congratulations of the “dragons” in the social networks.
The player, trained in Brazilian Alagoano, He arrived in Portugal in the summer of 2001, after signing for the Marítimo team.
Recently, In an interview with Expresso, Pepe recalled his difficult beginnings.
When he landed in Portugal, at the age of 18, he arrived with the equivalent of 5 euros, he remembered. He had two options: either buy a sandwich or buy a business card to call his mother and you would say it’s okay.
He chose to call his family and later went to an airport cafe to order a sandwich from a waiter, who warned him he had no money. “He looked at me, came out and came on a tray with a wand and handed it to me.”
After two seasons in the set Madeira, Pepe signed for Porto, a club he was in between 2004 and 2007, where he was a key player for the white-blue team.
After his successes in the Portuguese countries, in 2007 he formalized his signature for Real Madrid, which paid 30 million euros. He thus joined the saga of the merengue galactic club.
There he returned to share a dressing room with one of his great friends, Iker Casillas, with whom he met again on his return to porto until the Madrid goalkeeper retired due to heart disease.
In 2017, after a decade of European success with the merengue club, Pepe, who had lost his place in the starting eleven to his detriment Ramos and Varane, confirmed his departure after winning three Leagues, two Copas del Rey, two Spanish Super Cups, three Champions Leagues, two European Super Cups and two Club World Cups.
After his departure as a meringue, his next destination was the Turkish team of Besiktas, at which he reached the age of 34 and with whom he signed for two seasons to participate in the Turkish Super League.
However, just one year later, the Ottoman club, with heavily decimated tapes, officially agreed with the player to terminate his contract, so that on January 8, 2019 he returned to porto.
In the Portuguese team he found the perfect house and lives a second youth. He is the benchmark of the club with which he won the Portuguese League last year.
The international central defender with Portugal does not hide it and has always shown his desire to win a European Cup again.