Marco João Costa Baixinho (born 11 July 1989) is a Portuguese professional

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who plays mainly as a

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for Cypriot club Anorthosis Famagusta.

Club career

Born in Arruda dos Vinhos, Lisbon District, Baixinho spent most of his youth career at Sporting CP and briefly rivals S.L. Benfica. He made his senior debut with

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in the

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in the 2008–09 season, winning promotion and then making his professional debut in

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, suffering instant relegation. In the summer of 2011, Baixinho joined

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also of the third tier. On 23 June 2015, after four seasons of regular game time concluding with winning the title, he signed a two-year deal at

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club

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under his former Mafra manager

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. Baixinho extended his contract in January 2016, to last until July 2019. He scored his first top-flight goal on 5 December that year, opening a 2–1 home win over

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while playing in

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. After Paços were relegated in

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, he netted four times to help them bounce back as champions (five in all competitions) and then signed a new deal in June 2019. At the end of the 2021–22 campaign, having failed to agree terms for a new deal, the 33-year-old Baixinho left the

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. On 13 July 2022, he signed a two-year contract with

Anorthosis Famagusta F.C. Anorthosis Famagusta ( el, Ανόρθωση Αμμοχώστου, translit=Anorthosi Ammochostou), commonly known as Anorthosis in English or Anorthosi in Greek, is a Cypriot football club, part of the Anorthosis Famagusta multi-sport club fou ...

of the Cypriot First Division.

Career statistics

Honours

Mafra *

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: 2014–15 Paços Ferreira *

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: 2018–19

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Baixinho, Marco 1989 births Living people Sportspeople from Lisbon District Portuguese footballers Association football defenders Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Segunda Divisão players C.D. Mafra players F.C. Paços de Ferreira players Cypriot First Division players Anorthosis Famagusta F.C. players Portuguese expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Cyprus Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus