From losing mother to winning the Champions League, the difficult journey of Assensio

Each time he looks up to the sky or closes his eyes to his Dutch mother, Mary, who passed away from cancer when he was only 15. She would now be proud of her son Marco, who was named after the Netherlands football legend Marco van Basten.

The story of Madrid's Real Real football player Marco Assencio began on the Spanish island of Mallorca. His father worked in a supermarket, and his brother was a police officer. Together they passed the great pain of losing their loved one, and the brother and father helped Marco make his dream come true.

On his day of presentation with the Madrid Real, Marco burst into tears and wrote blitz. al

I've been dreaming about this day since I was a kid. I want to thank my family, my father and my brother. And my mother, who knows she's always supporting me from up there where she's”,- Asensio said, burst into tears.

He is only 21 years old, but has been named one of the most promising talents of Spanish football.

He managed to win the League Champions with the Madrid Real and was declared the best football player of the U-21 European Championship. A remarkable story of the success of a young man who with effort and sacrifice has succeeded in being a football player of one of the world's largest teams.