Marcelo dos Santos Farias Valverde, better known as Marcelo Valverde (born November 21, 1989), is a Brazilian goalkeeper and Forward who plays for U.D . Santarém in Portugal.

Career

Marcelo Valverde, Marcelinho, began his career in a small school that was held in the condominium where he lives. However, at 10 years, driven by a friend of his father to the Estádio da Gávea, auditioned for the team of

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, has been approved, and is there today, with much success in the youth ranks of red-black. The young archer is currently the team's youth club, where he has won several titles. Among them, the tricampeonato state under-19 and the same state, however, the Under-17, and Copa OPG and Copa Belo Horizonte. Next season, in 2008, the

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will have 19 years, and thus may continue to participate in disputes in the juniors, if not promoted to the professional team. Marcelo had a defining moment in his career still in the year 2007. When the Brazilian team went to

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to face

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in a match valid for the

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, the team trained at Gávea, and Marcelo was called to attend the training. The year also marked the third place team of

in the Champions Youth Cup, mundial interclubes U-19 category, where Marcelo was the

and one of the highlights of the campaign. On 1 June 2011, Marcelo joined

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side

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Career statistics

:''(Correct )'' ''according to combined sources on the Flamengo official website and Flaestatística.''

Honours

**Campeonato Carioca de Juniores: 2005, 2006, 2007 **Campeonato Carioca de Juvenis: 2006 ** Copa Macaé de Juvenis: 2006 **Taça OPG: 2006 **

Taça Belo Horizonte de Juniores The Taça Belo Horizonte de Juniores (or ''Belo Horizonte Youth Cup'', in English), also known as Taça Belo Horizonte de Futebol Júnior or Taça BH, is a cup competition usually played by 36 Brazilian under-20 football teams, most of them from ...

: 2006, 2007

Contract

* Flamengo.CBF Registry
(in Portuguese)

References

External links

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