Márcio Amoroso

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Personal information
Amoroso
Full name	Márcio Amoroso dos Santos
Date of birth	July 5, 1974 (age 32)
Place of birth	Brasília, DF, Brazil
Height	1.80m
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current club	Corinthians
Number	10
Youth clubs
	Guarani (SP)
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1992 1992-93 1994-95 1996 1996-99 1999-01 2001-04 2004-05 2005 2006 2006-	Guarani →Verdy K. (on loan) Guarani Flamengo Udinese Parma Dortmund Málaga São Paulo AC Milan Corinthians	? (?) 39(28) 16(6) 86(39) 39(11) 59(28) 29(5) 26(18) 4(1) 15(3)
National team²
1995-2003	Brazil	19 (10)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 00:00, 10 February 2007 (UTC). ² National team caps and goals correct as of 00:00, 10 February 2007 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Márcio Amoroso dos Santos (born July 5, 1974 in Brasilia) is a Brazilian football player who currently plays for Brazilian club side Corinthians. He has played his football for several teams in Italy and Germany, while representing Brazil at international level.

1 Career
2 Honors and awards
3 External links

[edit] Career

Amoroso started his career at homeland club Guarani FC at 1992. In July of 1992, he was loaned to a Japanese outfit Verdy Kawasaki FC, and returned to Guarani FC two years later. In 1996, he transferred to CR Flamengo, but he came to prominence playing in the Italian Serie A for unfashionable Udinese Calcio in the late-1990s. There he starred alongside Oliver Bierhoff in a side which played an adventurous 3-4-3 formation. When Bierhoff left the club for AC Milan, many thought Udinese would struggle to repeat their success, but that very next season Amoroso himself became the focus of the team, and was the top scorer in Serie A. A big-money move to Parma followed. The Parma side never quite fulfilled their potential to win the league title, and Amoroso was soon on the move again, this time to Borussia Dortmund in Germany where he won the national title in 2002 and was the league's topscorer. Amoroso played for Málaga during the 2004–05 season.

Amoroso joined São Paulo Futebol Clube in the summer of 2005 and immediately helped them to the Copa Libertadores de América, the most prestigious club prize in South America. In January 2006, after having won the FIFA Club World Championship, he returned to Italy, signing a 18-month contract for AC Milan as a replacement for Christian Vieri, who had transferred to Monaco.

Later on, Amoroso agreed to cancel the contract with AC Milan on 1 September 2006, and immediately signed a new contract with Corinthians. Amoroso quickly received the no. 10 jersey from Corinthians as a replacement for Carlos Tevez (who left Corinthians and joined West Ham United).

[edit] Honors and awards

[edit] Verdy Kawasaki

J. League: 1993, 94

[edit] External links

Preceded by Oliver Bierhoff	Serie A top scorer 1998-99	Succeeded by Andriy Shevchenko

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Márcio Amoroso

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[edit] Career

[edit] Honors and awards

[edit] Verdy Kawasaki

[edit] Flamengo

[edit] Udinese

[edit] Parma

[edit] Dortmund

[edit] São Paulo

[edit] Brazil

[edit] External links

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