Marcos Roberto Silveira Reis
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Marcos Roberto Silveira Reis | ||
| Date of birth | 4 August 1973 | ||
| Place of birth | Oriente, Brazil | ||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1988–1992 | Palmeiras | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1992–2012 | Palmeiras | 255 | (0) |
| Total | 255 | (0) | |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1996–2005 | Brazil | 29 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 5 January 2012. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 5 January 2012 |
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Marcos Roberto Silveira Reis (born 4 August 1973, in Oriente, São Paulo), known simply as Marcos, is a Brazilian former World Cup winning footballer who played as a goalkeeper, widely considered one of the best his country has produced. He spent his entire career at Palmeiras, of the Série A, from 1992 until his retirement in January 2012, and became one of the club's greatest idols, being nicknamed São Marcos ("Saint Mark" in Portuguese). He was the starting goalkeeper of the champion Brazilian squad of the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
He played for Brazilian professional club Palmeiras since 1992 and was the first goalkeeper since 1999 after an injury of Velloso, the first-choice goalkeeper at the time. With outstanding performances in the Copa Libertadores 1999 he helped the team conquer the title, after beating Palmeiras' arch rivals Corinthians in the penalty shoot-outs in the quarter-final. Since then he was nicknamed São Marcos. In 2000 once again he faced Corinthians in the Libertadores, this time at the semi-final level, and again eliminated the rivals in the penalty shoot-out.
In 2002 after a fantastic World Cup participation with Brazil's team he received a proposal from the English team Arsenal and actually went to London to sign but then disappeared leaving Arsenal and fellow Brazilian, Edu, wondering where he had gone, therefore the deal never happened. When he eventually surfaced he stated that he would rather play the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B (second division) with Palmeiras than play in any European team just for the money.
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