Former Real Madrid star confessed that he slept with his mother until he was 17

The childhood of soccer players rarely comes to light. There are few cases in which professionals decide to tell their secrets as a child and relate anecdotes completely unknown to everyone. However, in the last hours, a former Real Madrid player, who was part of the team called Galactico and who was also key in obtaining several tournaments, both national and international, told of an unusual and incredible situation that he lived in the house of he.

It's about Képler Laverán Lima Ferreira, or simply Pepe, who on his birthday gave an interview for a Portuguese media and told details that he had never commented on. He first gave the "secret" to him to stay current in high competition. “The trick to staying competitive at this age? My passion for football. Every day I wake up to train, I try to do it in the best possible way. I train intensely and I think that's my vitamin. Obviously being 25 is not being 35 or 37, but at this age I can use energy better in the field”, he expressed in dialogue with Tribuna Expresso de Portugal. And immediately he gave rise to a statement that surprised.

The current Porto footballer accepted that his genetics helped him to succeed in sport, but he remarked that “there is also a lot of work behind it, a lot of rigor in food and rest. I wasn't always this thin; When I was 3 or 4 years old, I was plump, a little chubby. At the age of 7 I began to lose weight. I am the only male child in the family, I have three sisters (two older ones), so I was very, very spoiled”.

And he concluded: “Until I arrived in Portugal at the age of 17, I slept with my mother. I was grown up and slept with my parents, so I imagine my dad didn't like having me in bed with them very much".

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Then Pepe recalled that in a training session with his home club, the coach and president of Marítimo of Portugal had come forward to assess the conditions of an attacker whom he had to score. “We want to sell the forward to help the club. When he faces you, don't steal the ball many times”, they told him. The then young Brazilian central defender accepted the proposal but did not put it into practice. After the short 20-minute training session, they approached him and suggested they go to Portuguese football, something he never doubted.

Just before traveling he broke his foot in one of his last games with Corinthians Alagoano and endangered his career, but the president of his team reassured him and told him that he would do his rehabilitation in Madeira, the birthplace of Cristiano Ronaldo. At that time the possibility arose to try out at Sporting Lisbon. “I met his father before, who worked near the Marítimo field, Cris's sisters and mother before him. When I went to Sporting we shared a room. I was older than him, but I saw his professionalism in training. Cris went to the gym first ”, he recalled.