Márcio Amoroso

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Amoroso
Personal information
Full name Márcio Amoroso dos Santos
Date of birth July 5, 1974 (1974-07-05) (age 33)
Place of birth    Brasília, DF, Brazil
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current club Aris Thessaloniki
Number 30
Youth clubs
Guarani (SP)
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1992
1992-1993
1994-1995
1996
1996-1999
1999-2001
2001-2004
2004-2005
2005
2006
2006-2007
2007-2008
2008-		 Guarani
→ Verdy K. (on loan)
Guarani
Flamengo
Udinese
Parma
Borussia Dortmund
Málaga
São Paulo
AC Milan
Corinthians
Grêmio
Aris Thessaloniki
 ? (?)
39 (28)
16 (6)
86 (39)
39 (11)
59 (28)
29 (5)
26 (18)
4 (1)
15 (3)
6 (0)
9 (1)   
National team2
1995-2003 Brazil 19 (10)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 20:57, 12 May 2007 (UTC).
2 National team caps and goals correct
as of 20:57, 12 May 2007 (UTC).
* Appearances (Goals)

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

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[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.

But then Amoroso agreed to cancel the contract with AC Milan on 1 September 2006, and immediately signed a new contract with Sport Club Corinthians Paulista. Amoroso quickly received the no. 10 jersey from Corinthians as a replacement for Carlos Tevez (who left Corinthians and joined West Ham United). But there he couldn't show the football that he's capable of, having his contract resigned in April of 2007, signing in for Grêmio. Since August, Amoroso does not play for Grêmio, having his contract resigned due to lack of form. In January 2008 he signed a 1,5 year contract with Aris Thessaloniki.


[edit] Silverware collector

Aris will be Amoroso’s 12th club (!) in six different countries and probably the last of an illustrious career, which saw him win no few than 20 trophies and personal awards, including the CSF Copa América with Brazil and both the FIFA World Club Cup and CSF Copa Libertadores with São Paulo. He’s also played for Flamengo, Udinese, Parma and Grêmio Porto Alegrense, which was his last club.

He’s been the top scorer in three different national championships and was the German Bundesliga record transfer when he joined Borussia for 25 million euros in the summer of 2001. Parma had actually paid three million more to sign him two years earlier.


[edit] Honors and awards

[edit] Verdy Kawasaki

[edit] Flamengo

[edit] Udinese

[edit] Parma

Italian Super Cup: 1999

[edit] Dortmund

[edit] São Paulo

[edit] Flag of Brazil Brazil

[edit] External links

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