Full name Marcos Pacheco Affini Playing position Years Team Current team Sporting club de Portugal | Place of birth São Paulo, Brazil Number 15 Height 1.77 m | |
Date of birth (1984-06-18) 18 June 1984 (age 32) | ||
Marcos Pacheco Affini (born 18 June 1984), known as Marcão, is a Brazilian futsal player who plays for Sporting CP as a goalkeeper.
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Career
Born in São Paulo, Marcão started his career in the amauter team, EC Ferraz, in the city of Ferraz de Vasconcelos. On 8 August 2007, he moved to Portugal to join C.F. Os Belenenses, arriving at the same time as Diego Sol.
At the Belém-side, he, and others like Pedro Cary, Paulinho and Marcelinho, helped the club reach two playoffs finals against Benfica, losing both, plus two Portuguese Cup finals, winning one, and losing another.
In January 2011, Marcão moved to the Qatar Futsal League, to play for Al Rayyan, staying just eight months, but winning the league title with the Qatari club. On 2 August 2011, he returned to Portugal and joined Benfica. In the three years he spent with them, Marcão won one league title, his second Portuguese Cup, plus two supercups.
In June 2014, Marcão joined AFC Kairat in the Kazakhstani Futsal Championship. At Kairat, he acted mainly as a back-up for Leo Higuita, his replacement at Belenenses, in a side that conquered the 2014–15 UEFA Futsal Cup against Barcelona in Lisbon. A year after leaving to Kazakhstan, Marcão returned for a third stint in Portugal, joining Sporting CP on 21 July.
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Personal life
He is the older brother of Lucas Sasha, a footballer who plays for Ludogorets Razgrad.