Born in Brazil and with more than 9 million followers on his social networks, the footballer has received heartfelt congratulations from “the dragons” from the very beginning.
Central defender Képler Laveran Lima Ferreira “Pepe” turned 38 years old on February 26. After obtaining three Champions With Real Madrid, the “goalkeeper” captain has a dream: to win his fourth Champions League.
He returned to the Portuguese club in January 2019, he has a contract until 2023 and to fulfill his wish 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 in Real Madrid and with that he has raised the European Championship in France with the Portuguese team.
In the first leg of the round of 16, they gave the surprise and the postage defeated Juventus 2-1 CristianoThe return, on March 9.
Born in Brazil, with dual Brazilian and Portuguese citizenship and with more than 9 million followers on its social networksfrom the very first hour of today, the footballer has received warm congratulations from “the dragons” in the social networks.
The player, trained in Alagoano, Brazil, He arrived in Portugal in the summer of 2001 after signing for the Marítimo island team.
Recently, Pepe recalled his difficult beginnings in an interview with the newspaper “Expresso”.
When he landed in Portugal at the age of 18, he arrived with the equivalent of 5 euros, he recalls. He had two options: buy a sandwich or buy a business card to call his mother and tell her everything was okay.
He chose to call his family and later went to an airport cafeteria to order a sandwich from a waiter, who he warned he had no money. “He looked at me, came out and came on a tray with a baguette and gave it to me.”
After two seasons in the set of Madeira Pepe signed for Porto, club he was in between 2004 and 2007, where he played a key role for the blue and white team.
After his successes in Portuguese countries, he signed for Real Madrid in 2007, which paid out EUR 30 million. So he joined the saga of the galactic merengue club.
It was there that he returned to share a dressing room with one of his great friends, Iker Casillas, with whom he met again when he returned to postage until the Madrid goalkeeper withdrew due to his heart condition.
In 2017, after a decade of European success with the merengue club, Pepe, who had lost place in the starting eleven at the expense of 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 leaving as a meringue, his next destination was the Turkish team Besiktas, where he arrived at the age of 34 and with whom he signed for two seasons to compete in the Turkish Super League.
Just a year later, with a heavily decimated treasury, the Ottoman club signed an agreement with the player official for the termination of his contract, so he returned to the United States on January 8, 2019. postage
He has found the perfect home in the Portuguese team and is living a second youth. He is the benchmark of the club with which he won the Portugal League last year.
The international central defender with Portugal makes no bones about it and has always shown that he wants to raise another European Cup.