“The training sessions have been fantastic in recovering our rhythm”, said the Brazilian.
Real Madrid’s vice-captain spoke to Realmadrid TV following the week’s fifth training session. Marcelo said: “We’d never gone so long without being able to train out on the pitch and our desire to play football has been growing ever since we stopped. Now we’re close to getting going again and we can’t wait”.


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“It’s been different to what we’re used to. We have to take the positives from it and now we’re used to the routine; it’s not like it used to be but everything’s good. We’re all healthy, the training sessions have been fantastic in recovering our rhythm. Having not touched a ball for so long, when you go back out on the pitch you’ve lost your touch a bit, but now we just can’t wait to start playing games”.