Marcos Pacheco Affini (born 18 June 1984), known as Marcão, is a Brazilian

futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hardcourt, hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and Indoor soccer, indoor football. Futsal is played between two teams of five players ...

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who play as a goalkeeper for

CF Belenenses Clube de Futebol Os Belenenses, commonly known as Os Belenenses (), is a Portuguese sports club best known for its football team. Founded in 1919, it is one of the oldest Portuguese sports clubs. It is based in the 25,000-seat Estádio do Reste ...

on loan from

Sporting CP Sporting Clube de Portugal, founded Sporting Club de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP, often known abroad as Sporting Lisbon , is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Lisbon. It is best known for the professional foot ...

Career

Born in

São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC a ...

, Marcão started his career in the amateur team, EC Ferraz, in the city of

Ferraz de Vasconcelos Ferraz de Vasconcelos is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. The population is 196,500 (2020 est.) in an area of 29.56 km². History and the City Ferraz de Vasconcelos i ...

. On 8 August 2007, he moved to Portugal to join

C.F. Os Belenenses Clube de Futebol Os Belenenses, commonly known as Os Belenenses (), is a Portuguese sports club best known for its football team. Founded in 1919, it is one of the oldest Portuguese sports clubs. It is based in the 25,000-seat Estádio do Rest ...

, arriving at the same time as Diego Sol. At the ''Belém-side'', he, and others like Pedro Cary,

Paulinho Paulinho is a Portuguese nickname for people named ''Paulo'' (Paulo -inho, little Paulo). People known as Paulinho include: Music *Paulinho da Costa (born 1948), Brazilian percussionist *Paulinho da Viola (born 1942), Brazilian sambista *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 The Qatar Futsal League, is the top league for Futsal in Qatar. The league champions automatically qualify for the AFC Futsal Club Championship. History The league was founded in 2007. Qatar Futsal League Member Clubs *Table as of 2011-12 Seas ...

, to play for

Al Rayyan Al Rayyan (; also spelled as ''Ar Rayyan'') is the third-largest municipality in the state of Qatar. Its primary settlement is the city of the same name, which occupies the entire eastern section and largely surrounds Metropolitan Doha and funct ...

, 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 AFC Kairat ( kk, Қайрат Алматы футзал клубы, ''Qaırat Almaty fýtzal klýby'') is a professional futsal club based in Almaty, the biggest city of Kazakhstan. The club was founded in 1995. Since 2012 the club has been one o ...

in the

Kazakhstani Futsal Championship The Futsal Championship of Kazakhstan is the premier futsal league in Kazakhstan, organized by Football Federation of Kazakhstan. Seasons summary Teams 2015-2016 *AFC Kairat, Kairat Almaty *MFC Tulpar, Astana-Tulpar Karagandy *MFC Ayat, Ayat ...

. At Kairat, he acted mainly as a back-up for

Leo Higuita Leonardo de Melo Vieira Leite (born 6 June 1986), commonly known as Leo Higuita, is a Brazilian born Kazakhstani futsal player who plays as a goalkeeper for AFC Kairat and the Kazakhstan national futsal team. His goalscoring ability led to his ni ...

, his replacement at Belenenses, in a side that conquered the 2014–15 UEFA Futsal Cup against

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. A year after leaving to Kazakhstan, Marcão returned for a third stint in Portugal, joining

on 21 July. In three years spent with Sporting, bitter rivals of SL Benfica, Marcão won three league titles, two Portuguese cups, two league cup titles and two regional cups (Taça de Honra). In the summer of 2018, Marcão returned to

on loan from

Honours

;CF Os Belenenses *

Taça de Portugal de Futsal The Taça de Portugal de Futsal ( en, Portuguese Futsal Cup) is the main Portuguese national futsal knock-out competition. It has been played yearly since 1997 and is organized by the Portuguese Football Federation. The current holders of the compe ...

: 2009–10 ;Al Rayyan *

: 2010–11 ;SL Benfica *

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: 2011–12 *

: 2011–12 * SuperTaça de Futsal de Portugal: 2011,2012 ;AFC Kairat *

UEFA Futsal Cup The UEFA Futsal Champions League is an annual futsal competition for European club teams organized by UEFA. It was founded as the UEFA Futsal Cup in 2001 and replaced the Futsal European Clubs Championship, an unofficial competition held since 1984 ...

: 2014–15 ;Sporting CP *

: 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18 *

: 2015–16, 2017–18 *

Taça da Liga de Futsal The Taça da Liga de Futsal ( en, Portuguese Futsal League Cup) is the second Portuguese futsal knock-out competition. It was created in 2016 to be disputed in a yearly basis by the eight-best ranked teams of the National Championship at the end of ...

: 2015–16, 2016–17 * Taça de Honra da AF Lisboa: 2015–16, 2016–17

Personal life

He is the older brother of

Lucas Sasha Lucas Pacheco Affini (born 1 March 1990), commonly known as Lucas Sasha, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Fortaleza. Club career Lucas Sasha began his youth career with Corinthians. He was part of ...

, a

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who plays for Ludogorets Razgrad.

References

External links

UEFA profileSporting CP profileFPF clube profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Marcao 1984 births Living people Futsal goalkeepers Sportspeople from São Paulo Brazilian men's futsal players C.F. Os Belenenses futsal players S.L. Benfica (futsal) players Sporting CP futsal players Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan