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Marcelo Machado

Marcelinho Machado
No. 4 – Flamengo
Position Small forward / Shooting guard
League NBB
Personal information
Born (1975-04-12) 12 April 1975 (age 42)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Nationality Brazilian
Listed height 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
Listed weight 202 lb (92 kg)
Career information
Playing career 1995–present
Career history
1995–1996 Fluminense
1996–1997 Tijuca
1997–1998 Corinthians (RS)
1998–2001 Botafogo
2001–2002 Fluminense
2002–2003 Rimini Crabs
2003–2004 Alerta Cantabria Lobos
2004–2005 Telemar/Rio de Janeiro
2005-2006 Uberlândia
2006–2007 Žalgiris Kaunas
2007–present Flamengo
Career highlights and awards

Marcelo "Marcelinho" Magalhães Machado (born 12 April 1975) is a Brazilian professional basketball player with Flamengo in the NBB and the senior men's Brazilian national basketball team.

Machado currently plays for the Brazilian club Flamengo. He started his career playing for Fluminense, a team from Rio de Janeiro, one of the greatest Flamengo's rivals. He emerged as one of the greatest hopes of Brazilian basketball as a career then idol Oscar Schmidt was ending, mainly due to the similarities of their game, a player who threw a lot of balls three and did many points. He was soon called to the national team to play the 1999 Pan American Games, in Winnipeg, Canada. The Brazilian team won the tournament, after a win over the American team. He went through teams like Botafogo, Tijuca, Ginástico (MG), Corinthians (PR), Crabs Rimini (ITA), Alerta Lobos Cantabria (ESP), Telemar/Rio de Janeiro, with whom Marcelinho won the Campeonato Brasileiro de Basquete, after a final series against Unitri/Uberlândia, which would be his next team, in 2005. After he played fpr Uberlândia, Machado went to Lithuania to defend the main team of the country, Žalgiris Kaunas. He stayed in Lithuania until 2007, when he signed with Flamengo. He just won his third Pan American Games, realized in Rio de Janeiro.

The arrival of Marcelinho to Flamengo created much expectation around the team, who had never won the Campeonato Brasileiro de Basquete, not even on the Oscar Schmidt Era. Together with Marcelinho, arrived to the team his brother, the guard Duda Machado, the guard Hélio Lima and other important players.


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