When you are a promising young right-back coming from Brazil, like it or not, they will compare you to your precessor – Cafu, Junior, Roberto Carlos, Dany Alves, Junior, especially if you sign with Real Madrid and share your locker room with Zinedine Zidane, David Beckham and co. And if you already have a drinking habit prior to arrival in Madrid, you are in trouble already. And that’s exactly what happened to Cicinho, a former Real and Roma right back.🎙| Cicinho: “At 13, I tried alcohol for the first time and then never stopped. I have been drunk to Real Madrid trainings, I drank coffee to take my breath away and bathed in perfume.” @marca pic.twitter.com/Acs0S8bqxb— Madrid Zone (@theMadridZone) June 20, 2022 The Brazilian signed for Real in the summer of 2005 and spent two seasons in the Spanish capital – where he made 32 appearances. He then joined the Italian club Roma in 2007 and spent five years with the Giallorossi, but was sent on loan twice, and by that time, he was already a heavy drinker. In fact, he drank on a daily bases and even went to the session drunk.“If you ask me whether I trained drunk while at Real – yes. I would drink coffee to hide my breath and soak myself in cologne. In my profession, as a professional footballer, it was easy. I didn’t need money to get a drink, people happily gave it to me in restaurants“ Cicinho admitted in an interview on EPTV show Ressaca.Marcelo’s tearful farewell: I am leaving as the most decorated player of the biggest club in the worldThings got worse after his second serious knee injury, and he continued drinking when he was in therapy.„I would start drinking after training. I would do work with the physiotherapist, I’d go home for 2 p.m., 2.30 p.m., and would only stop drinking at 4 a.m. Every time I turned up drunk at Roma, the directors lost more faith in me” admitted the Brazilian.While negotiating with Mbappe, PSG tried to hijack Vinicius from RealWhile other sportsmen have a tendency of trying alcohol, tobacco, or even drugs during their professional careers, when they are already established stars, the former Real defender started drinking at an early age, while he was still in Brazil.„Ever since I first tried alcohol at 13, I have never stopped. I lived in the countryside and that the weekends people would get together to go to the squares, club. There was a bar there and I would hide as I was young and would ask someone of age to buy for me and I would hide from my parents and the police while drinking” explained Cicinho.GODOY CRUZ – DEFENCA JUSTICIALuckily, the former Real defender is sober now for years, and as many others like him is speaking of this problem, trying to influence others.„Alcohol surrounds you with people who like that lifestyle, and people who really love you are left out. I have a 15-year-old son and I am always apologizing to him. At that time he was two years old and he did not even understand it well, but that is what I remember in my head” admitted Cicinho.
