PSG Star Marquinhos Embraces Viral ’Moroccan’ Nickname Amid Ongoing Internet Joke

7 March 2019 – byAmine · 1 min read

For Marquinhos, Morocco is his second country. And this comes from a joke by the satirical website Football France which had made him pass for a Moroccan and had given him the nickname "Marquinhos the Moroccan". His fictitious Morocanness has since been the source of endless jokes.

Marquinhos, whose real name is Marcos Aoás Corrêa, was born in 1994 in Sao Paulo, Brazilian and Portuguese this Brazilian international plays in Ligue 1, at PSG to be precise. Nothing very Moroccan... On the other hand, the satirical media France Football had the funny idea of making him pass for a Moroccan who pretends to be Brazilian in order to be able to join the Brazilian national team. The media nicknamed him "Marquinhos the Moroccan". And since then, the jokes haven’t stopped.

In an interview with beIN Sports, Marquinhos mentioned Morocco, among other things. The beIN Sports journalist (a lot of sense of humor too apparently) asked him if he would prefer to be a World Cup winner with the Moroccan national team, or a member of the Brazilian team without winning anything, and the Brazilian central defender replied: "Brazil is my country, Morocco is my second country, I have a great love for Morocco now with all these jokes. There is no family connection with Morocco but there is a great love and great admiration anyway."

Marquinhos would also have been compared to Talal El Karkouri by Moroccan internet users. And Marquinhos the Moroccan would be, he, originally from Ouarzazate.

Category: Sport

Keywords:

Paris Football