Marcos González

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Marcos González
Personal information
Full name	Marcos González
Date of birth	June 9, 1980 (age 26)
Place of birth	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height	6'2
Playing position	defender
Club information
Current club	Columbus Crew
Number	6
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1999-03 2003-05 2005 2006–	Universidad de Chile Colón de Santa Fe CD Palestino Columbus Crew	52 (4) 12 (1) 37 (3) 21 (0)
National team2
2002–	Chile	5 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 3 December, 2006. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 11 January 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Marcos González (born June 9, 1980 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Chilean professional football (soccer) defender who currently plays for the Columbus Crew in Major League Soccer. Although born in Brazil, he moved to Chile when he was two and has Chilean citzenship.

Marcos began his professional career in 1999 with Universidad de Chile, and stayed with them until 2003. He then signed with the Argentinian club Colón de Santa Fe and played with them until 2005. In 2005 he returned to Chile to play for Palestino, and for the 2006 season he chose to sign with the Columbus Crew over Universidad Católica.

He has represented Chile internationally 5 times, including in recent qualifiers for the 2006 World Cup.

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• List of current MLS players

Columbus Crew - Current Squad
2 Hejduk | 4 Pierce | 5 Moss | 6 González | 7 Thomas | 8 Oughton | 9 Garey | 10 Ngwenya | 11 Grabavoy | 12 Gaven | 13 Burch | 14 Marshall | 16 Kamara | 17 Szetela | 20 Ward | 23 Hendrickson | 24 Zayner | 25 Virtuoso | 28 Gruenebaum | 31 Gaudette | — Herron | — Hesmer | — O'Rourke | — Rogers | Coach: Schmid