Marcone Amaral Costa Jr. (born 5 April 1978), known as Marcone, is a former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

. Born in Brazil, he represented Qatar at international level.

Biography

Brazil

Born in

Poções Poções is a municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil. Climate See also *List of municipalities in Bahia This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Bahia (BA), located in the Northeast Region of Bra ...

, Bahia, Marcone started his career in Salvador. He made his Série A debut in the 1997 season, and played 10 games. After played for the team at 1998 Copa do Brasil and 1998

Campeonato Baiano The Campeonato Baiano (), also known as the Baianão (), is the top-flight professional state football league in the Brazilian state of Bahia. Run by the Bahia Football Federation (FBF), it is the second-oldest state football championship o ...

, he was signed by Italian club

A.C. Venezia Venezia Football Club is an Italian professional Association football, football List of football clubs in Italy, club based in Venice, Veneto, that currently plays in . They were relegated to Serie B after a 2-3 loss to Juventus. Originally fo ...

along with Bilica and Tácio, however at that time

Italian Football Federation The Italian Football Federation (, ; FIGC ), known colloquially as (), is the governing body of football in Italy. It is based in Rome and Centro Tecnico Federale di Coverciano, the technical department is in Coverciano, Florence. It manages a ...

imposed a quota on how many non-EU player that a team to keep and field them, thus Marcone was loaned to Swiss side

Bellinzona Bellinzona ( , ; ; is a municipality, a List of towns in Switzerland, historic Swiss town, and the capital of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The town is famous for its Three Castles of Bellinzona, three castles (Castelgrande, Montebello, Sa ...

. He then returned to Vitória and played in

1999 Copa do Brasil The Copa do Brasil 1999 was the 11th staging of the Copa do Brasil. The competition started on January 28, 1999, and concluded on June 27, 1999, with the second leg of the final, held at the Estádio do Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, in which Juv ...

and 1999 Campeonato Baiano. He left the club before the start of 1999 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. He returned to the team for

Copa João Havelange The 2000 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (officially the Copa João Havelange) was the 44th edition of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the top-level of professional football in Brazil. Due to legal complications, the championship was organized ...

. After played for the team at

2001 Copa do Brasil The Copa do Brasil 2001 was the 13th staging of the Copa do Brasil. The competition started on March 14, 2001 and concluded on June 13, 2001 with the second leg of the final, held at the Estádio do Morumbi in São Paulo, in which Grêmio lifte ...

and 2001 Campeonato Baiano, he was transferred to Vila Nova of 2001 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B. In 2003, he left for Estrela do Norte. After played for União Barbarense at

2004 Copa do Brasil The Copa do Brasil 2004 was the 16th staging of the Copa do Brasil. The competition started on February 4, 2004 and concluded on June 30, 2004 with the second leg of the final, held at the Estádio do Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, in which Santo ...

and 2004

Campeonato Paulista The Campeonato Paulista Série A1, commonly known as Campeonato Paulista, nicknamed Paulistão, is the top-flight professional state football league in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. Run by the São Paulo State Football Federation (FPF), ...

, he left for

Marília Marília () is a Brazilian municipality in the midwestern region of the state of São Paulo. Its distance from the state capital São Paulo is by highway, by railway and in a straight line. It is located at an altitude of 675 meters. The popul ...

. He played 4 games in

2004 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B The football (soccer) Campeonato Brasileiro Série B 2004, the second level of Brazilian National League, was played from April 23 to December 11, 2004. The competition had 24 clubs and two of them were promoted to Série A and six were relegate ...

, all as substitutes.

Qatar

In July 2004 he left for

Qatar Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is a country in West Asia. It occupies the Geography of Qatar, Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it shares Qatar–Saudi Arabia border, its sole land b ...

i side Al-Shamal. He then left for

Al-Gharafa Al-Gharafa Sports Club () is a Qatari multi-sports club based in the Al Gharrafa district of Ar Rayyan, Al Rayyan municipality. The club is best known for its association football, football team, although it also has teams for other sports. The ...

. He only played twice in

2010 AFC Champions League The 2010 AFC Champions League was the 29th edition of the top-level Asian club football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), and the 8th under the current AFC Champions League title. The final was held at the National ...

, on group stage match 6 and the succeeding round of 16 match. In July 2011, it was announced on the QFA website that Marcone had left

to join the recently promoted El Jaish.

Club career statistics

''Statistics accurate as of 21 August 2011''QSL.com.qa – Marcone Amaral Costa

¹Includes

Emir of Qatar Cup Emir of Qatar Cup (), also known as the Emir Cup, but changed to Amir Cup starting in 2019, is an association football tournament played every season by all first and second division teams in Qatar. The tournament is played in a knockout system, ...

²Includes

Sheikh Jassem Cup The Sheikh Jassim Cup () is an annual men's super cup competition in Qatari football held between the winner of the Qatar Stars League and the Emir of Qatar Cup. History The inaugural Sheikh Jassim Cup was held in 1977. Prior to the 2014 Sheik ...

³Includes

AFC Champions League The AFC Champions League Elite (abbreviated as the ACL Elite) is an annual continental club association football, football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation, and contested by Asia's List of top-division football clubs i ...

International career

Marcone played for Qatar after lived for the county for more than 2 years (FIFA requirement). He played 9 games in

2010 FIFA World Cup qualification Qualifying for the 2010 FIFA World Cup was a series of tournaments organised by the six FIFA confederations. Each confederation – the AFC (Asia), CAF (Africa), CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean), CONMEBOL (South America), OFC (Oc ...

. He was the captain of Qatar team at

2010 Asian Games The 2010 Asian Games (), officially known as the XVI Asian Games () and also known as Guangzhou 2010 (), were a regional multi-sport event held from November 12 to 27, 2010 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China (although several events commenced ear ...

as one of the three overage players.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Qatar's goal tally first.''

Honours

;Regional *

Campeonato do Nordeste Copa do Nordeste (English: ''Cup of the North-East''), also known as Campeonato do Nordeste (''English: Championship of the North-East'') or Copa Nordeste (English: ''Northeastern Cup'') is a Brazilian football competition among Northeastern re ...

: 1997, 1999 ;State * Copa Espírito Santo: 2003 *

: 1997, 2000

References

External links

Player profile – QSL.com.qa

Futpedia

CBF

CBF – Site Oficial da Seleção Brasileira de Futbol
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