Real Madrid: he played with Beckham, Zidane and Ronaldo, and drank 10 beers a day

Not many players get to play at the top level for so many years. In some cases, there is an unhealthy habit that affects their performances. In this case, he could not make it at Real Madrid because his alcoholism, despite being signed as a top player and international with Brazil.

In 2005, he was 25 years old and joined a club that had Zinedine Zidane, David Beckham, Ronaldo Nazario, Roberto Carlos and Iker Casillas as stars. And he was signed to get into that starting eleven. And he did at the beginning, but his bad habits started to show and he could not hide that at that level.

That player was Cicinho, who confessed he started drinking at 13 years old and had 10 beers a day. His wife took him out of those habits and now he has been sober for eight years, but at the time he could not get regular minutes because his illness worsened his quality as a defender.

Cicinho played for Brazil at 2006 World Cup and after Real Madrid, he played for Roma, Villarreal, Sao Paulo, Sport Recife and Sivasspor, where he stopped drinking, retired at 36 and spent three consecutive seasons in a same team for the first time in his career, He regrets a lot of that, and wishes he had a different career, without unhealthy habits.