"It was the first time I told my Mum about the conditions I was living in, and she was shocked, " Marcos says. "But I made first division and I wasn't going to be stupid enough to put the last two years in the bin.
 
"I got my own apartment and for the first time, locked my own door behind me at night, at the time I wanted to do it.
 
"I was free."
 
Despite Marcos's dream start as a professional footballer, it wasn't long before he realised that his talent wouldn't be enough for him to sustain a good career in South America.
 
"Twenty or thirty years ago, someone would say: 'You want to play football? Here are two or three apples...'
 
"Now, its dirty. When I was 20 years old and playing well in Argentina, my manager made a few enemies," he reveals. "He left on bad terms with my club and I paid for his mistakes."
 
"My first two seasons in Argentina were great - the football was good, I was playing for a top club and I was living my dream," he explains. "But the only thing I ever had in my control was my talent."
 
Despite his strong start, Marcos found himself having a tough time finding regular football in his homeland, which is when he made the decision to seek a career elsewhere, in a place he hoped would embrace him.
 
"I burnt 20 DVDs with the plan to give them to anyone that would take them," he remembers, laughing.
 
"I would say to random people: 'Look this is embarrassing for me, but please take my DVD. I would give it to people at the supermarket."
 
With his stash of DVDs kept under his seat car for easy distribution, on one significant evening on the way to a party, a friend of Marcos found a disk and mistook it for music.
 
"Turn that rock n roll off", his friend said, "and put this on," holding the disk in Marcos's direction.
 
Marcos laughed and said: "No buddy, that's not Reggaeton. It's my highlights DVD. Do you know anyone that can help me find a club?"
 
The next two weeks saw the two hour highlights DVD of Marcos Flores fly from Argentina to Sydney, where there would be a non-practising, licensed FIFA agent ready to make some calls. 
 
"This guy called Adelaide United about me, probably randomly. " Laughing, Marcos continues: "It started with an A so maybe they were the first ones in the phone book."
 
Fate would have the DVD then fly from Sydney to Adelaide, where the playmaker would soon become the target of Adelaide United Football Director, Michael Petrillo.
 
"I remember my friend ringing me and saying, "Look, these guys in Australia are interested in you, " he recalls.
 
"And at that time I was so desperate for a jersey - any jersey - that I told him that if they offered me a contract paying me a wage in the form of a koala or kangaroo, I'll go."
 
But as timing would have it, Australia would have to wait for the services of this particular Argentinian. It was February 2009, and Adelaide United were keen to sign him for pre-season starting in June - but they were crucial months that Marcos did not want to wait.
 
"I made it clear to everyone that would listen - the first offer that would come up I would take, " he says, "and so I went to Chile."
 
Signing a one year deal in Chile turned out to be a perfect step in the right direction for Marcos, who claims that the move helped him find his passion again. 
 
 
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