Marquinhos, captain of the Brazilian national team, held a press conference in Kolkata ahead of the match against India. He spoke about the warm welcome from local fans, the pressure of playing for Brazil, and the team's goal of regaining confidence following the World Cup. This article covers the first part of the press conference.

First part of the press conference:

Marquinhos: I've been with the Brazilian national team for many years now, and I consider every match to be my first and last game.

Marquinhos, how do you feel about being here?

I'm very happy to be in India today. Thank you for the warm welcome we received when we arrived in Kolkata yesterday. I'm really looking forward to this match and hope we can perform our best against India. This is my first time in India, and I've been enjoying everything here so far. Thank you, Kolkata, for this enthusiastic welcome.

Indian football fans have a deep connection with the Brazilian national team. How do you feel about playing here with such strong support from local fans? How does this connect you and your teammates?

I think when you have the opportunity to visit a country like this, even for someone like me who has been with the Brazilian national team for many years and lived with this team for so long, it still feels very special. This is my first time here. The love that everyone shows us and their expectations about the arrival of the Brazilian team are truly impressive. They want to experience these moments with Brazilian players, whether in training or during matches.

We can imagine how a player called up to the Brazilian national team for the first time must feel. I believe this is energy. This is connection. It drives you forward, keeps you working hard, keeps you fighting, and pushes the Brazilian national team back to where it should be—at the top—to start winning again and fight for important goals.

After the World Cup, when a new cycle has just begun, there are always valuable experiences like this. I believe we will carry these experiences throughout the remaining cycle. This is a very valuable opportunity—to represent the Brazilian national team here, in front of a country and people who love football, love Brazil, and love all of the team's history. It's a very valuable opportunity.

We want to reconnect with Brazilians again. To achieve that, we need to succeed on the field, take the pitch, and represent the Brazilian jersey well. At the same time, we want to reconnect with those outside Brazil who have been following the team all along. India is undoubtedly one of the countries outside Brazil with the most supporters of the Brazilian team. So we are happy and deeply honored to have the opportunity to be here today.

Your performance at the World Cup didn't meet expectations. Under Ancelotti's leadership, how are you moving past that experience and that disappointment?

Yes, we are well aware that our World Cup performance did not meet our expectations. As players, we know how difficult the World Cup is and how difficult it is to go further and compete for important honors. We've seen the level of teams, the level of players, and their performances in the competition.

So now we're focused on the present, but we still carry our history and past, including those experiences that help us learn lessons and move forward. From here on is a fresh start, and we will bring the experience we've accumulated, especially from our coaching staff, who have also been through the World Cup before. So now they have more experience for the next World Cup and the next cycle. For players like us, I believe we will recover and be ready as much as we can be.

I believe this is what drives us, what pushes us forward and keeps us focused on the next goal and the important mission ahead. We have long-term goals, but we also have urgent goals that need to be achieved: truly regaining confidence, playing well again, and securing some good victories.

Today, one of our goals in coming here is to play excellently tomorrow, secure a good victory, and continue building confidence. The coach also needs to assess, watch new players, and continue observing current players he wants to monitor. All of this is a process, a cycle. We continuously build on these things to regain confidence and to be in good form when we enter future World Cups. That's the long-term goal.

But at this stage, our current goals must take priority: win, move forward, regain confidence, continue playing exciting football, and earn the love and acceptance of Brazilians and those who have followed us all along. This is our ongoing goal after the World Cup.

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