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The midfield master who was born at the wrong time, served as the main player in Real Madrid but was seriously underestimated by his boss, and was still wronged in the French team.

7:48pm, 3 October 2025【Football】

At the request of my friends, let’s talk about Marklele, a midfielder with excellent skills but bad luck.

On February 18, 1973, Claude Maclare was born in Kinshasa, Congo. When he was about 5 years old, he went to France with his family and lived in the outskirts of Paris. Marklele played football with local kids, so she was simply too happy. Since then, Marklele has been determined to become a professional player.

His father also plays football. He knows how much hardship it takes to become a professional player, so he is unwilling to play football with his own children. However, Marklelai really likes playing football so much that his father couldn't resist him, so he could only let him try it. When Marklele was 16 years old, he bid farewell to his parents and went to the Brest echelon for training. About a year and a half later, his boss unfortunately went bankrupt, and Marklele had to go to other clubs to look for opportunities.

At the advice of his father, Marklelai joined the Nantes club and became teammates with Brucharga and Karemb. When he first arrived, he showed amazing strength and quickly occupied the main midfielder's seat. With his help, Nantes is quite competitive. By the 1994-95 season, Nantes dominated the Ligue 1 and won the league championship.

However, Nantes' glory is too short-lived. The club was soon forced to become a star supermarket due to financial issues. As a player in the team who can sell for the price, Markle will naturally be placed on the shelves. His new owner is the French traditional powerful Marseille team.

Marclale lived like a year during his days in Marseille. It is hard to imagine that during Kurbis's coaching staff, Marclayle, the midfielder, was once fixed in the right back position, and it was so uncomfortable that it would naturally affect the players' performance on the court.

The poor performance in Marseille will naturally affect the French national team's view of Marclayle. In the 1998 World Cup in France, Marklele failed to be selected for the French team's roster and missed the god-given opportunity to win the Hercules Cup with the team. Maclale learned from his mistakes and transferred to Vigo Celta in the summer of this year.

At that time, Celta had Mostovoy, the offensive master, and Marklele only needed to follow him and do a good job in defensive work. This is too easy for Marklele. These two men attacked and defended in the midfield, making La Liga heroes complain. Even super giants like Real Madrid and Barcelona have suffered from the pain of this pair.

With his outstanding performance during his time at Celta, Marklele became a regular visitor to the French national team. However, missing the dark experience of the 98 World Cup has had a huge negative impact on him. At that time, the French team trusted Deschamps and Petit more in the 1998 World Cup, and Marklele could only be regarded as the marginalist of the team. The French team won the European Cup in 2000, which has nothing to do with Marklele.

In the summer of 2000, Marklele joined Real Madrid and ushered in the peak of his career. However, his timing for joining Real Madrid is quite subtle. At that time, Real Madrid sent away the Argentine midfielder Redondo, who was elegant in the style of football and great achievements. Many Real Madrid fans were angry. Under this background, Marklele will naturally be implicated if he joins Real Madrid and replaces Redondo.

Although Marklele is also a master-level midfielder, he is really at a disadvantage compared to Redondo. On the one hand, Marklele's style of playing is not as gorgeous as Redondo and is not as outstanding on the court; on the other hand, Marklele's appearance or temperament cannot be compared with Redondo, who is as handsome as a prince.

This directly led to the fact that although Marklele performed well in Real Madrid, he helped Real Madrid win the league championship and the Champions League championship. However, at that time, many fans and even the media were still missing Redondo, and still felt that Marklele could not be compared with Redondo...

This public opinion atmosphere would more or less affect the French team's attitude towards Marklele. In the 2002 South Korea-Japan World Cup, even though Petits' competitive state declined seriously, the appearance rankings of these meritorious veterans are still ahead of Marklele.

Marklele at this stage has a bit of "Dad doesn't love you, and your mother doesn't love you." Not only is the French team in an awkward situation, his club Real Madrid also seriously underestimated his strength. In the summer of 2003, Marklele hoped that his boss would give him a significant salary increase, but Florentino refused firmly. Just at this moment, Chelsea offered Markle a high salary. After a period of time, the midfielder, who was born at the wrong time, finally defected to Stamford Bridge.

After Real Madrid lost Marclay, their offense and defense completely lost their balance. Although Real Madrid is full of stars in the attack line, this team is struggling in La Liga and Champions League and has not won the championship for several consecutive seasons. It is not difficult to imagine how valuable Marclay is.

As Zidane said: After you lose your engine, you still apply gold paint on your Bentley. What's the point?

In contrast, Marclay's new owner Chelsea has greatly increased after he got Marclay. In the 2003-04 season, the first season of Markle Lele joining Chelsea, the team unexpectedly entered the Champions League semi-finals. In the 2004 European Cup, Marklele, who was already 31 years old at the time, finally served as the main player in the French team. Then, Marklele's luck was so bad that he met the Greek team just as he entered the knockout stage. As everyone knows, the Greek team defeated France in an upset.

The Greek team this time is considered a very special team. The lineup configuration looks weak, but it is extremely combat-ready and has good luck. It is not surprising that the French team encounters such an opponent and loses the game.

just pitied Marclayle and was criticized after the French team was eliminated. Some media even claimed that Marklele was just parasitized in the shadow of Vieira. This made Marclayle very wronged and once made the decision to withdraw from the French national team.

Then, after losing the French team's group of players, their record plummeted, and it was difficult to even play in the World Cup qualifiers. The result was that the French team invited Marklelais and the others back.

In the 2006 World Cup in Germany, Marklele and Vieira formed a double midfielder to protect Zidane and demonstrated strong competitiveness. The French team passed the opportunity and advanced to the finals and scored the first goal, but lost the final due to various factors.

At this time, Marklele was already 33 years old and it was difficult for him to stick to the next World Cup. So he once again made the decision to withdraw from the French national team. Logically speaking, a player of his age should receive blessings if he withdraws from the national team. But the reality is that Marklele suffered a lot of grievances in the French team. The then French coach Domeneque not only prevented Marklele from withdrawing from the national team, but also verbally threatened the midfield master. Claiming that if Marklele does not play in the European Cup qualifiers, he will not let Marklele play well at Chelsea.

The then Chelsea coach Mourinho was very angry about this. The character coach once publicly stated that Marklele is not a player, but a slave to the French team.

The old Marclayle, his competitive state gradually declined, and his role in the club and the national team is gradually decreasing. He completely ended his national team career in 2008 and said goodbye to Chelsea. In the days that followed, Marklele played in Paris and announced his retirement in 2011.

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