Joselu Mato is already a Real Madrid player. The footballer born in Stuttgart returns to the white team at the age of 33 and does so accompanied by the beautiful family that he has formed together with Melanie Cañizares. Both got married in 2016 near the Madrid municipality of San Lorenzo del Escorial among more than a hundred guests, a link that brought together some notable footballers such as Bojan Krkic, Marc Muniesa or Gerard Deulofeu.
At that time, the striker played for Stoke City, a club where he stayed for just one year and from which he returned to Galicia, the wonderful land where he grew up since he was four years old. By the time he signed for Deportivo de la Coruña he was already married and shortly after Joselu and Melanie expanded the family. They are currently the parents of two children: Leo and Lucas.
Melanie Cañizares has almost 10,000 followers on social networks, she defines herself simply as the mother of Leo and Lucas and dedicates a loving heart to her husband, Joselu. And it is that her family is the most important thing for her and practically all the publications they make include the soccer player, one of her children or all of them at the same time. Sometimes other protagonists also sneak in, and not always with joy.
And it is that last May Melanie shared one of the most difficult news: the loss of her pet. “With such intense pain that I already recognize physical. With a pressure in my chest that I don’t want to ignore (…). What I know now is only pain. The one that floods my eyes with tears every time I remember yours. Your simple presence made me complete. I will miss you every day, my little one. And I promise to look for you at the next station, I know you’ll be waiting for me. I love you Toby”, he shared with a photo of his puppy.
‘Guilty’ in the love story of Dani Carvajal
Melanie also has a twin sister named Daphne who last year married Dani Carvajal, Joselu’s new teammate at Madrid. And it was precisely the relationship between the winger and the striker in the white dressing room that led Carvajal to find love. “Dani played with my brother-in-law at Castilla, Madrid’s second team,” Daphne told in an interview for Hola last year. “They always had a relationship. Dani even went to visit my nephew when he was born. We saw each other, we greeted each other… Until the conversation arose”.
A very special tattoo
Joselu Mato sports many tattoos, but there are very special ones that are barely visible when he puts on his game uniform. The protagonist is Melanie, whose face, from a photo shoot when she was pregnant, adorns one of the player’s legs. “I still can’t believe it… Children hallucinate, I more than understand this madness. To you, my life, what else can I tell you…”, he wrote on Instagram in October 2021 showing the tattoo.
