Marcelo Augusto Mathias da Silva (26 August 1991 – 28 November 2016), simply known as Marcelo, was a Brazilian

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who last played as a

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for Chapecoense. Marcelo was one of the victims when

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crashed on 28 November 2016.

Club career

Volta Redonda

Marcelo was born in

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, but represented

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as a youth. After being released, he joined

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in 2012. Marcelo made his senior debut on 20 April 2012, starting in a 2–0 away win against Resende for the

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championship. Regularly used during the club's run in Série D, he managed to appear in only one match during the following year's state championship, but returned to feature regularly in the following campaign.

Flamengo

On 23 April 2014, shortly after having his federative rights acquired by Cianorte, Marcelo was loaned to Série A club

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until the end of 2015. He made his division debut on 27 July, starting in a 1–0 derby home win against

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. Marcelo scored his first goal in the main category of Brazilian football on 31 August 2014, netting the first in a 2–1 away win against Vitória. Ending the season as a starter, he fell down the pecking order in the following year, after the emergence of Samir and the arrival of César Martins.

Chapecoense

On 8 January 2016, Marcelo signed for fellow top tier club Chapecoense. He spent four months nursing an injury before returning to action on 27 November, in a 0–1 away loss against

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, which would be his last match.

Death

On 28 November 2016, whilst at the service of Chapecoense, Marcelo was among the fatalities of the

accident in the Colombian village of Cerro Gordo,

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Career statistics

Honours

;Chapecoense *

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

(posthumously)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Marcelo 1991 births 2016 deaths Footballers from Juiz de Fora Brazilian men's footballers Men's association football defenders Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players Campeonato Brasileiro Série D players Volta Redonda FC players CR Flamengo footballers Associação Chapecoense de Futebol players Copa Sudamericana–winning players Footballers killed in the LaMia Flight 2933 crash 21st-century Brazilian sportsmen