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 Mexico defender Rafael Marquez is feeling "in great shape" after becoming only the third man in history to play at a fifth career World Cup. 
 
 Marquez earned the distinction after coming on as a substitute during Sunday's massive 1-0 win against world champions Germany. 
 
 The 39-year-old has already retired from playing for club side Atlas and declared his intention of ending his playing career when Mexico's World Cup campaign is over, came on in the 74th minute against Germany to equal the records of Mexico compatriot Antonio Carbajal and Germany's Lothar Matthaus. 
 
 "I feel in great shape for the rest of the tournament," Marquez said after the historic appearance and victory for Mexico. "Back home no one thought that we could pull this off. We have a pessimist culture in Mexico, but we have a tough mentality." 
 
 Mexico coach Juan Carlos Osorio brought Marquez on to make Mexico's defensive tactics more robust as Germany threw men forward in search of a goal to level the game. Playing as captain in a defensive midfield role, he made some tough tackles on German players as Mexico successfully defended its lead. 
 
 "I didn't think about the fifth World Cup," Marquez said. "The game was close and I just wanted to do my job. It was a moment with a lot of pressure." 
 
 Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon was called up to five World Cups but played in only four of them, with Gianluca Pagliuca starting for the national side in 1998. 
 
 Rafael Marquez in action for Mexico against Germany. Photo by David Ramos - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images 
 
 Marquez first appeared for Mexico at the 2002 World Cup and has since gone on to feature in 2006, 2010, 2014 and now 2018. 
 
 "[I dream] about making history with the national team," Marquez said in an interview with ESPN's John Sutcliffe before the tournament began. "It's been a thorn in the side that in four opportunities we've not been able to achieve it. 
 
 "This is the moment, it's today, it's the present. We can't wait four more years to make history. 
 
 "We have all the tools and we have to work them. We have to convince ourselves, mentally prepare ourselves to be able to make history." ||||| MOSCOW — Rafael Márquez, one of the best-known stars on Mexico’s World Cup soccer team, is a standout of the tournament in Russia. But it has nothing to do with his prowess on the field. 
 
 Márquez, 39, is on a United States Treasury Department blacklist of people it says have helped launder money for drug cartels. His inclusion on the list prohibits American individuals, businesses and banks from having anything to do with him. 
 
 So Márquez does not drink from the same branded water bottles as his teammates or wear the same uniform at practices. Instead of being planted in front of sponsors’ logos at every opportunity, as is normally the case for prominent players, “Rafa,” as he is known, is kept away. 
 
 If he is the best player in a game, he most assuredly will not be named the Budweiser Man of the Match. His lodging is carefully scrutinized to prevent him from staying in places that have any American connections, even if it means getting him a room away from the team. And however hard he works on the field, Márquez has agreed to not get paid. ||||| Marquez, a four-time World Cup veteran, was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department last year for allegedly aiding a powerful Mexican drug trafficker. His bank accounts were frozen in the U.S. and Mexico and he was placed on a blacklist that bans Americans and U.S.-based companies from doing business with him.
– The captain of Mexico's World Cup squad became one of only three athletes to play in five World Cup tournaments on Sunday. But Rafael "Rafa" Marquez's substitution in a 1-0 win over defending champions Germany, per ESPN, wasn't to be applauded by all onlookers, including in his home country. "It is incredible that the authorities are allowing a person who is accused of money laundering to go and play a World Cup as if nothing happened," a Mexico City resident tells the Los Angeles Times, referring to accusations that Marquez held assets for a Mexican drug trafficker, which prompted the US Treasury to freeze his bank accounts and block US companies from doing business with him last August. "That impunity only happens in Mexico. If you or someone who is not famous had cheated, they would put you in jail." Marquez, who has not been formally charged, is about as far from a jail cell as you can get. Two weeks before taking to Russia's open soccer pitches, Marquez visited Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto at the presidential palace. As one fan tells the Times, "Rafa is the soul of the national team, and if he is in trouble with the United States, we don't care." Still, the 39-year-old defender agreed not to be paid for his role with the team, where he's the only member forced to avoid gear featuring logos of sponsors including Coca-Cola, per the New York Times. He also had to miss a warm-up match in California. If any of that is a distraction, Marquez isn't showing it. "I feel in great shape for the rest of the tournament," he said after Sunday's win. "Back home no one thought that we could pull this off."