Discover Rafa Marquez Off The Court

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

If we have to talk about successful Mexican soccer players, few can boast of a better record than Rafael Márquez. In addition to having won titles with great clubs like Monaco or FC Barcelona, he has also been the captain and leader of the Mexican team for years.

But the idol of the Tri fans has another facet outside the field, when he leaves the football boots and becomes the loving dad and husband of Jaydi Michel.

A balance that, he assured in an interview with People en Español, tries to carry with absolute normality.

I like being at home a lot, participating in housework, now with the new member I get very involved in helping what has to do with him, like bathing him, changing him, feeding him, I have no problem with all that I always try to give my family and my children enough space,”said Márquez, who recently became a father to little Leonardo's Michel.

The player is also the father of Santiago and Rafaela, from his marriage to Adriana Lava t.

"In Santiago, the truth is that his passion for soccer is undeniable, so we identified ourselves with Rafaela's character, he has a temperament very similar to mine and with Leonardo, since he is very similar to me physically," he assured. football player.

In addition to the similarities that he finds in each of them, he also says that he is in charge of transmitting to them the strong values with which he grew up and inherited from his parents. Values that are part of the Rafa Márquez Foundation.

“The values that I have are those that my parents gave me, those that forged me. Today I am who I am thanks to those values that my parents gave me. I don't like injustices, I don't like to deceive people and pass that on to my children and the people around me, at my foundation we also try to pass these values on,”he said.

The player noted that his work for children comes from his personal experience.

“Fortunately I come from a very hard-working family, I never lacked for anything, thanks to their work. But I did see poverty very closely, in addition to the experience of having gone to Europe, which allowed me to be with other colleagues, other cultures, that also led me to make my foundation and do my bit, since in our country We have big problems and with this I try to return a little of the affection that these people have given me”, he pointed out.

Despite the fact that his professional commitments do not grant him much truce, he stressed that he closely follows the work of his foundation.

"I would like to be more involved, but the little time I have I am always aware of the day to day of the foundation and the children who belong to the institution, so I get involved as much as I can, I try not to neglect that", I observe.

What is the goal of the foundation?

"What I am looking for is to give them a better opportunity, there are thousands of children who have few resources and maybe they do not get to have an opportunity, or they do not give them the tools to achieve it, that is why at the foundation we give them to them, we try that their values and dreams are fulfilled, whatever they do, "he said.

“In fact, we have already had success cases that have been worth this sacrifice, as a girl who started with us for several years and we have already achieved that she has access to the university and, God willing, soon we will have a lawyer who left of the foundation”, he highlighted.

How do you manage so that the problems on the court do not get home?

“I try to set aside the result a bit with the family, but when it is not possible, I work with the couple to be able to vent the problems that exist with my profession, in that sense we get along well. While I can, I try not to take the problems home.” The main thing in the relationship is communication and that in the case of us we coincide a lot both in values, as in thoughts and ideas, that makes what we feel about each other stronger”

As for his relationship with Michel, he was as in love as the first day.

“What I like the most is everything, I am very much in love with her, her figure, her ideas, her thinking, we agree a lot on many things, that is part of the love I feel for her. I like what he wears I always see his beautiful, even if he is in his pajamas I always see him beautiful, I think it is the blind love I have for him that I like with what he wears, said Márquez, who is now