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Maybe he likes it that way. Likes it that way. He certainly seemed to master the art of simple football, but without the sustained momentum and off-field persona to match other great defensive dictators, Marcos Senna seems doomed to the periphery of conversation. Marcos Senna is the 1,th most popular soccer player up from 1,th in , the th most popular biography from Brazil down from nd in and the th most popular Brazilian Soccer Player.
Among soccer players, Marcos Senna ranks 1, out of 16, Among people born in , Marcos Senna ranks The only team in my head is Spain. At Euro , Senna could conceivably have been named the player of the tournament. Not that it was the most important thing to him.
When he and his teammates met Arsenal again in the Champions League, this time the quarter-final of , Senna stressed that the trophy was there to be won.
Read Xavi: the humble composer. Senna always viewed his career positively given his humble beginnings. His father worked to ensure his son could play football, and then persuaded him to carry on when he thought about stopping.
I had an aim to become a professional footballer — the best that I could be — and I achieved all my aims. I am proud of all my achievements. His achievements were many, though the possibility of winning the World Cup, a career-long aspiration, was cruelly taken away in Had he been selected to go to South Africa by Vicente del Bosque, a dream would have become reality. But at the age of 34, and with the emergence of Sergio Busquets at Barcelona, he was deemed an expendable remnant of the side that had succeeded so impressively two years earlier.
It was harsh, if understandable. Senna had suffered from injuries at Villarreal in the season prior to the World Cup, and his side had regressed slightly to a seventh-placed finish. He finished his career with two years in America, but it was the yellow of Villarreal that defined the Brazilian.
He was an incredible player and an even better person. His contribution to Villarreal as a player was invaluable, and he would return in as an ambassador, the bond between the midfielder and the club seemingly inseparable.
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