Marcos Gomes de Araujo, better known as Marquinhos (born 23 March 1976), is a former

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ian

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er. He has spent his career playing mostly in the

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Biography

Marquinhos started his professional career in Spain with

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side

CD Ourense Club Deportivo Ourense, S.A.D. was a Spanish football team based in Ourense, in the autonomous community of Galicia. Founded in 1952 after the dissolution of old UD Orensana, it played in Segunda División B – Group 1, holding home games at ...

. Then he played with several

ian and Japanese teams. He became the J. League Top Scorer top scorer in the 2008 season with 21 goals to his name as

Kashima Antlers are a football club in Kashima, Ibaraki, currently playing in the J1 League, top tier of Japanese professional football leagues. The name ''Antlers'' is derived from the city name, Kashima, which literally means "deer island". The club has fi ...

won the title for the second year in a row. Marquinhos was awarded J. League Most Valuable Player on 22 December 2008, becoming the second Antlers player to win the highest J.League award after former Brazilian star Jorginho. On 22 January 2011, Marquinhos left Kashima to join

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on a permanent deal but left that club on 9 April 2011, suffering emotional instability from the deadly earthquake and tsunami on 11 March. He played for Sendai in only one league match. On 11 January 2012, Marquinhos returned to the Japanese League to sign with his former club

Yokohama F. Marinos is a Japanese professional football club based in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, part of the Greater Tokyo Area. The club competes in the J1 League, which is the top tier of football in the country. Having won the J-League title four times an ...

Club statistics

Awards and honours

Club

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Emperor's Cup , commonly known as or also Japan FA Cup is a Japanese football competition. It has the longest tradition of any football match in Japan, dating back to 1921, before the formation of the J.League, Japan Football League and their predecessor, J ...

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Japanese Super Cup The , known as the for sponsorship reasons, is an annual one-match association football competition in Japan organised by J. League and the Japan Football Association (JFA). This competition serves as the season opener and is played between the r ...

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Individual

J.League Most Valuable Player The J.League Player of the Year (formerly known as the "J.League Most Valuable Player Award" from 1993 to 2020) is awarded by the J.League to the most valuable player of the season. J1 League Winners Wins by club J2 League Winners J3 League ...

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J.League Top Scorer The J.League Top Scorer is awarded by the J.League to the top scoring player of the season. Wins by club See also *List of J.League awards, J.League awards *Japanese football champions, for Japan Soccer League predecessors. References ULTRAZO ...

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J.League Best XI The J.League Best XI is an acknowledgement of the best eleven players in J.League. J1 League (1993–present) Multiple appearances Appearances by club Appearances by country * Only in two occasions there was a full-Japanese Best XI (20 ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Marquinhos 1976 births Living people Footballers from Mato Grosso do Sul CD Ourense footballers Coritiba Foot Ball Club players Clube Atlético Mineiro players Tokyo Verdy players Yokohama F. Marinos players JEF United Chiba players Shimizu S-Pulse players Kashima Antlers players Vegalta Sendai players Vissel Kobe players Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players J1 League players Expatriate men's footballers in Japan Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Brazilian men's footballers Operário Ferroviário Esporte Clube players Men's association football forwards People from Rio Brilhante, Mato Grosso do Sul