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On the side of Kai Havertz and Maduka Okoye, Cebrail Makreckis obtained the German championship during the 2015/2016 season with the B-Youth of Bayer 04 Leverkusen. While Havertz started directly in male (Site notre bureau spécialisé), Makreckis had to take detours. He is now one of the regular players of Ferencváros Budapest and is observed by the first division teams of the main European leagues. The transfer market spoke to the right of 24 years to the right of a moving career.
Sometimes you need a review to develop a new motivation and new strength for the next challenge. At these times, Cebrail Makreckis is happy to think back to the 2019/20 season when he fought with Bonner SC in the Regionalliga West to remove the league. The refueling then dreamed of jumping to professionals, but the sporting presence looked different, his team fought for relegation. « Of course, time in Bonn has been very formative, but also very hard for me. Differential when you see that the former youth teammates Leverkusen ended up directly in professional (Site notre bureau spécialisé) and that you have to take a detour, » explains the defender in TM’s interview. « Although the conditions in Bonn were anything but easy, I always thought that I would do professional (Site notre bureau spécialisé). During this time, I had to listen to a lot of saying. » Cebrail, stop dreaming.
« There are a lot of players who have dropped such saying, I took them as a motivation. Almost with attitude: I show you and at one point, I don’t care about you. My attitude was always: if I believe in depth in my heart, I do not leave anyone to remove this dream from the second representation of Borussia Dortmund. At that time, the 24 -year -old was convinced that The reality was different.
« When I signed at the BVB at the time, I was of course convinced that it was the right way. In retrospect, it was going badly, but I was able to learn a lot. Here too, I kept my positive attitude. I said to myself if life had this task for me, then I accept this task, I work on me and I continue to fight, » says life of 24 years.
After a more mixed first half of the BVB II in the 3rd league, he went to the competitor of the Viktoria Berlin League, which, however, relegated to the fourth class. The former Latvian internship U19 stood at the crossroads of his career and was not too good to follow a stony path. He led him to the Bulgarian first division club Pirin Blagoevgrad, the original club of the former Bundesliga Dimitar Berbatov star. « When I received the bulgaria offer at the time, I said to my advisor: Bulgaria, really your seriousness? But after that, I realized if I really wanted to progress. I didn’t want to go far. I didn’t want to go to Austria or Switzerland either. »
Makreckis on Bulgaria: « I thought I arrived in 1990 »
Although it is the first Bulgarian league, the sports infrastructure was not comparable to Germany, the reminders of Aix-l’inom. « If you know all the privileges of Germany, of course, you react shocked. When I saw the cabin for the first time, I said to myself, I arrived in 1990. But I told myself that the shower had lukewarm water, I have my own closet, what more. In such moments, you become humble, » said Makreckis, who lived in very minimalist Blagavgrade.
« I had a small apartment in a room in which there was not much apart from a bed and a sofa. I had a kitchenette, I also felt in fed up with noodles, rice and bread. I had beautiful nature in front of the door, I felt hiking every two days. In terms of sport, his club only concerned relegation, the flexible makreckis was one of the best artists and of the season.
« I thought at the beginning: » Even if I play exclusive here, who should see me here? « Sometimes I only played 50, 60, 70. The right clubs can come, » said the 24 -year -old.
From the start, he became an essential leader in the team of the Hungarian record champion. His achievements contributed to Ferencváros again to become national champion last year. « I had only one chance, so I had to deliver from the first day of the match. Each training session, each newspaper of the League had to sit. I like to compare it to an acrobat on a high rope. If you start wondering if you fail, you fail. This is why I only thought of Makreckis.
Makreckis: « Today, my body is my biggest weapon »
The robust defender’s player is also characterized by the physique and a corresponding physical presence on the ground. « My body was my greatest weakness. I have always been the smallest, always the thinnest. Today, my body is my biggest weapon. In Bulgaria, I started to do more to push additional changes. In Budapest, I now hear my sports coach: ‘Cebo, today, you have nothing to do in the gymnasium. » But I always do it because I have fun.
Two coaches who shaped him in Ferencváros played at their active moment when Makreckis has always authorized – in the best European (Site notre bureau spécialisé). « I was and I was lucky to have been able to train or be allowed to train both under Dejan Stankovic as well as Robbie Keane. Dejan was very impulsive, very emotionally, very passionate, but also a very funny guy. He took the time very often after training, and we hit or trained flanks.
« My best moment was the match against Ac Florence in the league of the conference. Yesterday, you have always played in Bulgaria and suddenly, you play against Nico González, who is the Argentinian international. It was so surreal. Many are always surreal for me. That I now appear to Panini self -adhesive, or that I can only play friends with me in fifa.
Although Makreckis is largely unknown in Germany, it benefits from a higher level of awareness abroad. 100,000 subscribers follow him alone on Instagram. « In fact, I did not notice this media threshing on me. It is perhaps also because I was used to my time in Bulgaria that no one sees me or knows me. I learned that fans of Ferencváros are very crazy. Then if speechless that I don’t know what to say about it. »
Meanwhile, the native of Aix-la-Chapelle not only moved into the Latvian national team. « Thanks to my mother, I could play for Latvia, through my father for Turkey. There is an exchange with the two associations. But I currently tend to wear the jersey of the Turkish national team in the future. »
Makreckis said about his future at the club level: « I have in fact not a dream country or a dream club for which I want to appear. Rather, I would like to measure myself with the best in the world. That I will finally stay humble in Italy, in Spain, in Germany or in England. In any case, I will remain humble, because I know where I played a few years ago.
Text and interview: Henrik Stadnischenko