Marcelo Martins Moreno

Marcelo Martins Moreno (born 18 June 1987), known as Marcelo Moreno, 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.

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name 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)
Playing 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 0 (0)
National team‡
2005 Brazil U18
2007– Bolivia 76 (18)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19 February 2020
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 18 June 2019

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 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 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 29 January 2010, Bremen terminated his contract and he returned to Shakhtar Donetsk.[3] 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.[4][5] After returning to Shakhtar as a reserve, Martins negotiated with Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense and signed with the Brazilian team for a five-year contract starting in 2012.[6] He was then loaned to Flamengo in 2013 season and Cruzeiro in 2014 season.

In February 2015, Martins transferred to Chinese Super League side Changchun Yatai.[7]

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.

On 19 February 2020, Martins returned for his former club, Cruzeiro, signing with them for 3 seasons.[8]

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.[9]

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 international goal on 20 November 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 1 April 2009. On 26 March 2013, he scored a goal in the 1-1 draw against Argentina.

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.[10] 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.[11]

He returned to the national squad in 2016 after Guillermo Ángel Hoyos replaced Baldivieso.[12]

Career statistics

Club
As of 1 July 2018
Club Season League Cup Continental State League Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Vitória 2005 -
2006 3012-3012
2007 -
Cruzeiro 2007 136--10--146
2008 1186108--1915
Shakhtar 2008–09 1421160--213
Werder Bremen 2009–10 504241--133
Wigan Athletic 2009–10 120------120
Shakhtar 2010–11 1852230--237
2011–12 --1110--21
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
Bolivia national team
YearAppsGoals
200742
200883
200962
201011
2011122
201260
201392
201430
201562
201660
201761
201852
201941
Total7618

International goals
Scores and results list Bolivia's goal tally first.[13]
#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.20 November 2007Estadio Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo, San Cristóbal, Venezuela Venezuela
1–0
3–5
2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
2.
3–2
3.18 June 2008Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz, Bolivia Paraguay
4–2
4–2
4.14 October 2008 Uruguay
1–0
2–2
5.
2–0
6.1 April 2009 Argentina
1–0
6–1
7.11 October 2009 Brazil
2–0
2–1
8.7 October 2010Estadio Ramón Tahuichi Aguilera, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia Venezuela
1–3
1–3
Friendly
9.7 October 2011Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay Uruguay
2–4
2–4
2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
10.11 November 2011Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Buenos Aires, Argentina Argentina
1–0
1–1
11.26 March 2013Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz, Bolivia
1–0
1–1
12.11 June 2013Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos, Santiago, Chile Chile
1–2
1–3
13.15 June 2015Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander, Valparaíso, Chile Ecuador
3–0
3–2
2015 Copa América
14.25 June 2015Estadio Municipal Germán Becker, Temuco, Chile Peru
1–3
1–3
2015 Copa América
15.28 March 2017Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz, Bolivia Argentina
2–0
2–0
2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
16.10 September 2018Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia
2–2
2–2
Friendly
17.13 October 2018Thuwunna Stadium, Yangon, Myanmar Myanmar
2–0
3–0
Friendly
18.18 June 2019Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Peru
1–0
1–3
2019 Copa América

Honours

Club

Vitória

Cruzeiro

Shakhtar Donetsk

Werder Bremen

Flamengo

Wuhan Zall

Individual

Cruzeiro

  • Copa Libertadores de América Top Goalscorer: 2008

Wuhan Zall

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References
  1. "Shakhtar swoop for Bolivian starlet". UEFA.com. 28 May 2008. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
  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. "Moreno is in England till summer". shakhtar.com. 1 February 2012. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
  5. "Wigan sign Shakhtar Donetsk striker". Ontheminute.com. 1 February 2012. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
  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.
  7. "亚泰投2.5亿争前八 弃前中超金靴签巴甲银靴". sina. 16 February 2015. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  8. Macedo, Guilherme. "Com camisa do Cruzeiro pintada no corpo, Marcelo Moreno provoca rival na chegada". Globo Esporte (in Portuguese). Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  9. "Globoesporte.com > Futebol - NOTÍCIAS - Achei! Marcelo Moreno, um boliviano de coração verde e amarelo". globoesporte.globo.com.
  10. "Bolivia withstand heavy pressure to edge Ecuador at Copa América". The Guardian. 16 June 2015.
  11. "Marcelo Moreno abandona seleção boliviana por divergências com técnico". Terra (in Portuguese).
  12. "Bolívia vence Peru na volta de Marcelo Moreno; Guerrero só entra no 2º tempo". Terra (in Portuguese).
  13. Marcelo Martins Moreno - International Appearances
  14. "2018中甲联赛积分榜". sports.sina.cn. 3 November 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
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