Maicon Douglas Sisenando

[Alex de Large]

Marcelo i'd say is the more dominant FB but for rb i'd be inclined to agree

Maicon is the better defender.

 

[n4l]

Maicon is the better defender.

No contest there. Is Marcelo even really a defender?

 

[Candreva Crosses]

People here can get so delusional when it comes to our treble squad.

 

[wera]

Wasn't Cafu also a RB? At one point of time he was unfuckawithble.

 

[n4l]

Cafu was all engine and crossing. Not a goal scoring threat like Maicon.

From an overall career perspective, much better longevity. Much more of a leader. More serious about his fitness, unlike Maicon who seriously only had about 4-5 years of world class football.

 

[wera]

Yeah, ofc Maicon was a bigger goal threat, but Cafu was a badass RB, more balanced.

Don't wanna take anything from Maicon, love him to death, just think Cafu was the golden standard, THE dominant player. Maybe you could also say he lay the foundations for Maicon with his style of play.

 

[Candreva Crosses]

But if we gonna talk about career perspective then Dani Alves has no one to even compare him with.

 

[Sassuolu]

http://www.corrieredellosport.it/ne..._maicon_pronto_a_querelare_zicu/?cookieAccept

The drunk thing was stated by some former Primavera player.

Maicon said he would sue.

 

[Bluenine]

^^ Thats interesting coz a friend who met Branca recently shared this story:

One training ground story was about Maicon who had a habit of showing up to training drunk after a night of partying. Mourinho came to Branca and said “we have to have a talk with him”. So he says to Maicon “Mike, come over here we need to talk to you”. So Mourinho started first and then Branca. When they were done, Maicon looked at them and said “Fuck you both, my personal life is mine and it doesn’t hold me back from practising hard." Evidently he was one of the hardest practisers on the team. When he walked away, Mourinho said Branca “watch him on Sunday, he’s going to be spectacular” and he was exactly that. They never had a problem out of him except his love of the night life.

So I guess there is some truth in the story. I don't have a problem with it since Maicon was one of the hardest working players in training, and he played brilliantly. But this explains why his career dropped off the cliff suddenly, that happens to a lot of Brazilians for exactly the same reason. After a certain age, you cannot keep the same lifestyle at that level.

 

[Sassuolu]

Meh I don't believe it, there were never doubts on Maicon's professionalism don't think an Inter side of that level would have allowed him to do that at least not on a weekly basis.

 

[Handoyo]

Meh I don't believe it, there were never doubts on Maicon's professionalism don't think an Inter side of that level would have allowed him to do that at least not on a weekly basis.

I donno man, tbh Maicon always looks like that class clown who don't give no fucks

 

[Bluenine]

Nice little story about the dude from Mourinho:

"I remember a match in Siena, with Maicon. They reminded me that he used to take the fifth yellow card before the Christmas break, to go to Brazil on vacation. I told him that he couldn't go if he got booked. He asked what if he scored. I told him that he had to score two. He scored twice, took his shirt off and got booked, and in the end, he had an extra week of vacation."

:megusta:

 

[Palacio]

Mou knows to motivate his players.

 

[Batman]

Sign him back. He’d still bag more goals and assists than Candreva.

Fyi, he is playing now for his childhood club Criciuma in Brazillian Serie C.

 

[.h.]

you cant help but wonder what would have been of ronaldo, ronaldinho, maicon, etc, if it wasnt for their partying life style. Look at CR, for example - still going strong at his age, consummate professional with going to the gym all the time and working out. They'd certainly have had much longer careers at the top, I suspect.

Hell its probably even true for Adriano - vastly different circumstances though

 

[brehme1989]

That's their norm. Garrincha paved the way. Pele is not held in as high esteem in Brazil. Pele is this "professional gentleman" guy who's not really celebrated in Brazilian football as a way of life. Several have been like him, like Rivaldo, Cafu, Kaka, Julio César, Diego, Gilberto Silva etc to name a few recent ones.
But the Romario, Djalminha, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Maicon, Roberto Carlos, etc of this world are much more.

The problem with Brazil is not that these players don't exist anymore. Sure, maybe not at this level. It is that the very Brazilian clubs are becoming less Brazilian and more European, trying to emulate Germany and Spain, which they cannot. They are different. Which is why they are struggling in big tournaments like the World Cup and their best players are mostly in the Premier League and they aren't really that great either, relying mostly on their athletic ability. Think Fernandinho, Fabinho, Fred etc. You see guys like Coutinho and Richarlison being considered great now but they'd not make the lineup in any Brazilian team before 2010.

They need to let these talented players take over and stop nurturing them from the age of 11 to this "modern football" regime that just makes them useless. I mean, if Neymar is your only bad boy and his main issue is that he likes to dance and flop, you're screwed as Brazil.

Same way Argentina has lost its way too. They stopped breeding #10s because they took them out of the game.

I do agree that they'd have better careers if they were more professional but at the same time, some of them would probably not even become professional players given the demands of Brazilian youth clubs these days. I wouldn't like to see a tamed Maicon that would hesitate to go forward because he'd expose his spot tactically or a tamed Ronaldinho that would opt for a simple pass or one-two instead of taking on his man with a shortly cut dribble.

 

[Puma]

Maicon's celebrations most be one of the ugliest shit I've ever watched.

Are you on drugs? Why the fuck are you looking at his celebrations when his goals were so breathtakingly beautiful?

Even today, those goals still make me smile. What moments! And what a player!

Inter Channel ruined the tribute with the shit music they put in the background. The tribute posted today with audio from the games was much better.

 

[Black Knight]

The tribute posted today with audio from the games was much better.

I agree. It provided good wank material this morning.

 

[ADRossi]

Inter Twitter feed is showing the 4-0 Milan thrashing. Man, Maicon in his prime is the best full back I've ever seen.

 

[Il Drago]

Maicon’s Ex-Agent Caliendo: “Today He’d Be Worth €100M, I Had €30M Deal With Real Madrid After Inter’s Treble In 2010”

Transfer market intermediary Antonio Caliendo has revealed that Maicon was all set to join Real Madrid after Inter’s historic treble winning season with Inter back in 2009/10.

In an interview with CalcioNews24.com, Caliendo, who oversaw the Brazilian’s transfer from AS Monaco to Inter in 2006, explained how much he thinks Maicon would cost teams to buy nowadays.

“Today, Maicon would cost teams around €100 million,” Caliendo remarked in the interview.

He then went on to discuss Maicon’s transfer to Real Madrid which looked to be all done but then collapsed.

“I had an agreement with Real Madrid for €30 million but Marco Branca behaved incorrectly. He first made me negotiate with Real Madrid and then told me that the president did not want to sell Maicon.

“In the end I found out that Massimo Moratti knew nothing about any of this. I do not know why the transfer was blocked because it also blocked Maicon’s career.”

Maicon spent six years with Inter and during that time he was one of the best full backs on the planet. In his time with the club, he made a total of 249 appearances across all competitions in which he scored 20 goals and provided 50 assists for his teammates. He also won 11 trophies during his time with the Nerazzurri.

Maicon left Inter for Manchester City and has also since played for Roma, Avai and most recently Criciuma, who he left at the end of last year.