Rafa Márquez, during an act in Mexico

MÁRQUEZ TRIUMPHED IN THE BARÇA

Márquez reveals why fichó by the Barça and no by the Real Madrid

Published:18/04/2018 - 17:44h

Updated:18/04/2018 - 17:57h

The experienced Mexican defender that played 240 parties in the FC Barcelona, Rafa Márquez, has conceded some statements in which it has explained why played in the FC Barcelona and no in the Real Madrid, club that also interested by him

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One of the best head offices that have gone through the FC Barcelona in the last times, Rafa Márquez, has conceded an interview to 'ESPN' in which it has confessed that it could fichar by the Real Madrid before landing in the Camp Nou, but that curiously the operation went to rack and ruin in full negotiations, after the group merengue did with the signing of Ronaldo Nazário.

Márquez played then in the Monaco and already called the attention to the big clubs of Europe, that did not doubt in launching to by his signing. It could finish in the Real Madrid, but like him same says, "the things go through something" and finally recaló in the eternal rival, the FC Barcelona.

At the end, Márquez finish in the Barça

"The there was does not exist, but by something happen the things. It was advanced the negotiation with the Real Madrid, I was ilusionado and happy, but was when they hired to Ronaldo and went to rack and ruin all the negotiation. I was more in Monaco until it arrived an offer of the Barcelona", explains.

"Probably it was not the suitable moment to go out of the Monaco, by something happen the things. I seat me lucky that some time the Real Madrid put his eyes in me and was interested, but at the end who went to think that the rival of this team went to hire me...", it remembers with a smile Márquez, that to the dessert finish playing 240 official parties with the FC Barcelona.

Márquez, a globe-trotter of the football

Later it went through the New York Network Bull, the Club León, Hellas Verona and at present has a place in the Atlas with 39 years, still in active thanks to his big physical conditions and to the passion that has felt from always by the football.

Márquez was a good central during the time that was in the FC Barcelona, and although it never finished to be indisputable like titling in the Barcelona defensive saga, left very good memory in the fans culé, especially by his big capacity to mark goals of head and also of direct fault, one of the virtues that put of self-evident his big technical.

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