João Batista Casemiro Marques

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João Batista Casemiro Marques (born March 4, 1975 in Cataguases) is a Brazilian-Turkish footballer player for Konyaspor. He also played for Gaziantepspor, Galatasaray in Turkey and Shaktar Donetsk in Ukraine.

He has dual Turkish citizenship ^[1] with Mertol Karatay name on his passport. Having not been capped by the Brazil national football team, Batista has the option of playing for Turkey if called up as Mehmet Aurélio. He was one of favourite player for Fatih Terim when he played for Galatasaray.

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• Profile at transfermarkt.de (German)

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