| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Marcelo Martins Moreno | ||
| Date of birth | June 18, 1987 | ||
| Place of birth | Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia | ||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Grêmio | ||
| Number | 9 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2003–2004 | Oriente Petrolero | ||
| 2004–2005 | Vitória | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2005–2007 | Vitória | 30 | (12) |
| 2007–2008 | Cruzeiro | 14 | (7) |
| 2008–2012 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 32 | (7) |
| 2009 | → Werder Bremen (loan) | 5 | (0) |
| 2010 | → Wigan Athletic (loan) | 12 | (0) |
| 2012- | Grêmio | 0 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2007– | Bolivia | 31 | (10) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23 May 2011. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Marcelo Martins Moreno (born 18 June 1987 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra), is a Bolivian footballer. He currently plays for Grêmio, as well as the Bolivian national team.
He is known as Marcelo Martins when representing Bolivia but as Marcelo Moreno at club level.
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Martins began his career at Vitória, becoming first choice in 2006, at the Campeonato Brasileiro Série C. He scored 12 goals in the competition, 4 less than the top goalscorer. In the middle of 2007, he moved to Cruzeiro, becoming first choice only in the next year, when he scored 8 goals at the Copa Libertadores, being the top goalscorer, alongside Salvador Cabañas.
On May 27, 2008 he signed a five-year contract with Shakhtar Donetsk. The Ukrainian club agreed to pay €9 million for the player.[1] On 29 May 2009, unable to establish himself in Donetsk, Martins joined German club Werder Bremen on loan. Bremen had initially attempted to sign Martins the previous summer, but the player opted for Shakhtar. On 29 January 2010, Bremen terminated his contract and he returned to Shakhtar Donetsk.[2] At 16:44 on the final day of the transfer window, a six-month loan deal between Shakhtar and Wigan was agreed to take the player to the Premier League. He signed for Wigan Athletic on 1 February on loan.[3][4] After returning to Shakhtar as a reserve, Martins was negotiated with Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense and signed with the Brazilian team for a 5-year contract starting in 2012.
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe | Total | ||||
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| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Shakhtar | 2008–09 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 21 | 3 |
| 2010–11 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 5 | |
| Total for Shakhtar | 25 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 35 | 8 | |
Born in Bolivia to a Brazilian father (Mauro Martins, former footballer) and Bolivian mother, Marcelo Martins has played for the Brazilian U20 national team at the youth level, becoming the first foreign player to be part of it and the fifth foreign player to wear the Brazilian National Team's shirt in an official match, but chose to play for the Bolivian senior national team as a professional.
Due to his success playing for Cruzeiro, he received his first call-up for a friendly match against Peru on September 12, 2007. Martins scored his first international goal on November 20, 2007, during a 2010 World Cup qualifier against Venezuela. He was also one of the goalscorers in Bolivia's 6–1 victory over Diego Maradona's Argentina on April 1, 2009.
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