Having been sidelined for almost three weeks due to a groin injury, Marcinho says that with the help of his team mates and coach, he’ll be at full fitness in no time.

“I’m around 80% fit at the moment, but with the sequence of games now at a very high level, I should be 100% very soon, especially with [Frank] Farina and the way he trains the team,” Marcinho told the club's website.

“I already feel that the club is my second home; they’re a great group of players and every player jokes with me and makes me feel at home.

"Even Frank Farina always gives me attention and tries to talk to me and explain things.

"So I feel that this is pretty much my second home and hopefully somewhere I will stay for a while.”

While the Brazilian still uses the help of the club’s translator and that of team mate Reinaldo to communicate with other personnel, he said he was determined to improve his English in order to be independent.

“At the moment, my English is not as good as I want it to be,” he admitted.

“I try at home, always watching Australian TV programs and trying to talk to my partner a bit more in English because she knows a few more words in English than I do.

"But I’ll definitely be trying to go to English school here and improve my communication skills as much as I can.

“Having a translator at the club, I’m definitely happy to have, but sometimes I get a bit lazy having that person there,” he joked.

“I still want to make sure I go to school so that when our translator is not around , I can do things by myself and be independent, especially on away trips and with things like that.”