Marcelo Martins Moreno

Marcelo Martins Moreno (born 18 June 1987), known as Marcelo Martins in Bolivia and as Marcelo Moreno in other countries, is a Bolivian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Cruzeiro and the Bolivia national football team. He is considered one of the greatest Bolivian strikers of all time. With 21 goals, he is the national team's all-time top goalcorer.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Martins and the second or maternal family name is Moreno.
Marcelo Moreno
Moreno playing for Flamengo in 2013
Personal information
Full name Marcelo Martins Moreno
Date of birth (1987-06-18) 18 June 1987
Place of birth Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Striker
Club information
Current team
 Cruzeiro
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)
2008–2011 Shakhtar Donetsk 32 (7)
2009 → Werder Bremen (loan) 5 (0)
2010 → Wigan Athletic (loan) 12 (0)
2012–2015 Grêmio 28 (10)
2013–2014 → Flamengo (loan) 16 (2)
2014–2015 → Cruzeiro (loan) 32 (15)
2015–2016 Changchun Yatai 53 (22)
2017–2018 Wuhan Zall 34 (25)
2019 Shijiazhuang Ever Bright 12 (7)
2020– Cruzeiro 16 (3)
National team‡
2005 Brazil U18
2007– Bolivia 79 (21)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 12 November 2020
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 17 November 2020

Club career

Martins was born in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. He began his career at Vitória, becoming first choice in 2006, at the Campeonato Brasileiro Série C. He scored 12 goals in the competition, four 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 2008 Copa Libertadores, being the top goalscorer, alongside Salvador Cabañas.

On 27 May 2008, he signed a five-year contract with Shakhtar Donetsk. The Ukrainian club agreed to pay €9 million for the player.[1] On 1 November, he scored a brace in a 3-1 league match win against Zorya Luhansk. Even though he had won the 2008-09 UEFA Cup, on 29 May 2009, unable to establish himself in Donetsk, Martins joined German club Werder Bremen on loan.[2] Bremen had initially attempted to sign Martins the previous summer, but the player opted for Shakhtar. On 2 August 2009, he scored a double in a 2009–10 DFB-Pokal match that ended in a 5-0 victory against Union Berlin. On 29 January 2010, Bremen terminated his contract and he returned to Shakhtar Donetsk.[3] On transfer deadline day, a six-month loan deal between Shakhtar and Wigan Athletic was agreed to take the player to the Premier League. He signed for them on 1 February on loan.[4][5] After returning to Shakhtar, he made a decent impression, scoring 7 times in 23 appearances. However, after being listed as a reserve the next season, Martins joined Grêmio in late December 2011 and signed a five-year contract with the Brazilian team starting in 2012.[6][7] He was then loaned to Flamengo in the 2013 season[8] and Cruzeiro in 2014.[9]

In February 2015, Martins transferred to Chinese Super League side Changchun Yatai. His first season in China was successful, scoring 20+ goals in 53 games.[10] In 2017 he signed for Wuhan Zall in the Chinese League One being the joint top scorer in his first season with 23 league goals, along with Colombian Harold Preciado. In 2019 Martins signed with Shijiazhuang Ever Bright. Although he only played 12 games with them, he scored 7 goals.

On 19 February 2020, Martins returned for his former club, Cruzeiro, signing with them for 3 seasons.[11]

International career

Born in Bolivia to a Brazilian father (Mauro Martins, former footballer) and Bolivian mother, Marcelo Martins has played for the Brazilian U-18 and U-20 sides 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.[12]

Due to his success playing for Cruzeiro, he received his first call-up for a friendly match against Peru on 12 September 2007. Martins scored his first two international goals on 20 November 2007, during a 2010 World Cup qualifier against Venezuela. On 14 October 2008, he scored both opening goals against Uruguay in a 2–2 draw. He also opened the scoring in Bolivia's historic 6–1 victory over Diego Maradona's Argentina on 1 April 2009. A few months later, in October, he scored the winning goal in a 2–1 victory against powerhouse Brazil at Estadio Hernando Siles.[13]

Martins was included in the Bolivia squad for the 2015 Copa América in Chile. On 15 June, he scored the decisive goal in the team's second group match – a 3–2 defeat of Ecuador – to give El Verde its first win at the Copa América since the 1997 tournament.[14] He was Bolivia's top scorer at the tournament with two goals, and also being the only one to score on the knockout stages as Bolivia lost to Peru 1-3 in the quarter-finals. He announced his retirement from the national squad on 15 September 2015 together with Ronald Raldes, then captain, claiming divergences with head coach Julio César Baldivieso.[15]

He returned to the national squad in 2016 after Guillermo Ángel Hoyos replaced Baldivieso.[16]

On 12 November 2020, Martins scored his 20th international goal in a 3–2 defeat to Ecuador, equaling Joaquín Botero's all-time top goalscoring record for Bolivia.[17]

Career statistics

Club
As of 1 July 2018
Club Season League Cup Continental Other Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Vitória 2005 –
2006 3012–3012
2007 –
Cruzeiro 2007 136–10–146
2008 1186108–1915
Shakhtar 2008–09 1421160–213
2010–11 1852230–237
2011–12 001110–21
Werder Bremen (loan) 2009–10 504241–133
Wigan Athletic (loan) 2009–10 12000–120
Grêmio 2012 281083511695723
2013 –302050
Flamengo 2013 16242–204
Cruzeiro 2014 32155440945023
Changchun Yatai 2015 24900–249
2016 291300–2913
Wuhan Zall 2017 292300–2923
2018 5200–52
Career total 23091332137102713327135

International

As of 17 November 2020.[18]

Bolivia
YearAppsGoals
200742
200883
200962
201011
2011122
201260
201392
201430
201562
201660
201761
201852
201941
202033
Total7921

International goals
Scores and results list Bolivia's goal tally first.[18]
#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
120 November 2007Estadio Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo, San Cristóbal, Venezuela Venezuela
1–0
3–5
2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
2
3–2
318 June 2008Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz, Bolivia Paraguay
4–2
4–2
414 October 2008 Uruguay
1–0
2–2
5
2–0
61 April 2009 Argentina
1–0
6–1
711 October 2009 Brazil
2–0
2–1
87 October 2010Estadio Ramón Tahuichi Aguilera, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia Venezuela
1–3
1–3
Friendly
97 October 2011Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay Uruguay
2–4
2–4
2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
1011 November 2011Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Buenos Aires, Argentina Argentina
1–0
1–1
1126 March 2013Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz, Bolivia
1–0
1–1
1211 June 2013Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos, Santiago, Chile Chile
1–2
1–3
1315 June 2015Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander, Valparaíso, Chile Ecuador
3–0
3–2
2015 Copa América
1425 June 2015Estadio Municipal Germán Becker, Temuco, Chile Peru
1–3
1–3
2015 Copa América
1528 March 2017Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz, Bolivia Argentina
2–0
2–0
2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
1610 September 2018Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia
2–2
2–2
Friendly
1713 October 2018Thuwunna Stadium, Yangon, Myanmar Myanmar
2–0
3–0
Friendly
1818 June 2019Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Peru
1–0
1–3
2019 Copa América
1913 October 2020Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz, Bolivia Argentina
1–0
1–2
2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
2012 November 2020 Ecuador
2–2
2–3
2117 November 2020Estadio Defensores del Chaco, Asunción, Paraguay Paraguay
1–1
2–2

Honours

Club

Vitória

Cruzeiro

Shakhtar Donetsk

Werder Bremen

Flamengo

Wuhan Zall

Individual

Cruzeiro

Wuhan Zall

References
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  2. "Moreno goes to Germany". shakhtar.com. FC Shakhtar Donetsk. 30 May 2009. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  3. "Moreno – durchgefallen und zurück nach Donezk" (in German). kreiszeitung.de. 29 January 2010. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
  4. "Marcelo Moreno becomes Wigan's second signing of the day". The Guardian. 1 February 2010. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
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  6. "MARCELO MORENO: "WHAT CONVINCED ME TO COME TO GREMIO IS THE FANS"". Gremio.net. 20 December 2011. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
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