Marcelinho Carioca

Marcelinho Carioca earned the nickname Pe de Anjo, Angel's Foot, and honestly that says everything. A Brazilian attacking midfielder famed for free-kick accuracy, he reportedly holds the record for most goals scored from free kicks, 78 of them. I love specialists like this; in football the dead-ball artist is half technician, half showman, and that bend takes thousands of hours nobody sees. He later moved into politics, which is a common but always interesting second act for Brazilian football figures. I can't speak to that chapter, but on the pitch, the free-kick legacy is the kind of thing fans never stop replaying.

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Name (English)

Marcelinho Carioca

Name (Japanese)

マルセリーニョ・カリオカ

Reading

まるせりーにょ・かりおか

Born

February 1, 1971 (age 55)

Origin

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Height

167 cm

Occupation

association football player / politician / beach soccer player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Boar

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelinho%20Carioca
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AA%E3%82%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q378101

Tags

• Rio de Janeiro
• association football player
• politician
• beach soccer player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.