A double, in memory of a loved one. After opening the scoring against Bordeaux, in Ligue 1, Neymar paid tribute this Saturday to his friend Marilia Mendonça, Brazilian idol who died on Friday in a plane crash.
“I’ll be your eternal fan. RIP MM. “With these few words in Portuguese, inscribed in felt-tip pen on a white t-shirt and exhibited several times on the field and returning to the locker room at half-time, the Paris Saint-Germain player reminded the Bordeaux public of his sentence and to the world of football.
The one he nicknamed, like many Brazilians, “the queen of suffering”, Marilia Mendonça died at the age of 26, aboard a small plane-taxi, in the state of Minas Gerais, in southeastern Brazil. Many Brazilians gathered this Saturday in his hometown in his memory.
The PSG player and the singer of “sertanejo”, a musical genre close to “country” and very popular in Brazil, were very close, evidenced by the many farewell messages posted on the footballer’s social networks.
