Marlos Romero Bonfim (; born 7 June 1988), or simply Marlos, is a former professional

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who played as an attacking

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. Born in Brazil, he played for the Ukraine national team.

Club career

Marlos was born in

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. In July 2014, he signed a five-year contract with

Shakhtar Donetsk Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk () is a Ukrainian professional Association football, football club that was based in the city of Donetsk until 2014 when, due to the War in Donbas (2014–2022), War in Donbas, the club was forced to move to Lvi ...

. In 2016–17, Marlos was recognized as a player of the month of the

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on three occasions (November 2016, May 2017, and July 2017) becoming the most-titled by the award. On 20 October 2017, there surfaced information that Marlos was paid one million dollars, which was said to be a bonus for extending his contract (four years).Akhmetov paid Marlos $1 mln for accepting Ukrainian citizenship (Ахметов заплатил Марлосу 1 млн долларов за принятие гражданства Украины)
Sport Arena. 20 October 2017 Supposedly, this was done to solve the problem regarding the limit of foreign players allowed on the Shakhtar squad. The same day,

issued its official press release denying the pay out. In the

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he scored 18 league goals only to yield the top scorer of the season title to his teammate Facundo Ferreyra with 21 tallies. On 31 December 2021, Marlos left Shakhtar Donetsk following the expiration of his contract and due to the beginning of Russo-Ukrainian War. On 1 February 2022, Marlos signed for

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International career

On 30 September 2017, FFU announced that Marlos was called up to play for Ukraine in the upcoming games of the World Cup qualification against Kosovo and Croatia.Marlos is called to the Ukraine national football team up against Croatia and Kosovo (Марлос вызван в сборную Украины на Хорватию и Косово)
Sport Arena. 30 September 2017 Marlos made his debut for

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on 6 October 2017, replacing

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in the second half of a 2–0 away win against

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(

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) as part of the

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. He is the second Brazilian-born to play for Ukraine after Edmar Halovskyi who represented Ukraine in 2011–2014.

Managerial career

In October 2024, Marlos became general director of the Brazilian club Independente Futebol São Joseense.

Career statistics

International

:''Scores and results list Ukraine's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Marlos goal''.

Honours

Coritiba *

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2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

* Paraná State League:

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

Shakhtar Donetsk *

: 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, *

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: 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, *

Ukrainian Super Cup The Ukrainian Super Cup () is an association football game of the Ukrainian Premier League in traditional super cup format that acts as the grand-opening for every new football (soccer), football competition season in Ukraine. Originally it was s ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

Individual *

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Squad of the Season: 2015–16 * Ukrainian Premier League Footballer of the Year: 2016, 2017, 2018 *

best player of season: 2017–18 * Football Stars of Ukraine – Best UPL player: 2017, 2018 *

player of the Month (3): 2016–17 (November), 2016–17 (May), 2017–18 (July)

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