Marco Zoro

Zoro will always be more than a stat line to me. An Ivorian central defender born in Anyama in 1983, he is remembered for a moment of courage rather than a trophy: walking toward the touchline mid-match after racist abuse, threatening to abandon the game. That act forced Italian football to confront a problem it preferred to ignore. I rate that higher than goals. Defenders exist to protect, and he extended that instinct beyond his own box to defend his dignity and everyone else's. His career reminds me that the bravest tackle is sometimes the one made against a whole stadium.

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Name (English)

Marco Zoro

Name (Japanese)

マルク・ゾロ

Reading

まるく・ぞろ

Born

December 27, 1983 (age 42)

Origin

Anyama, Abidjan Department, Ivory Coast

Height

182 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Boar

• Official sitehttp://www.marcandrezoro.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco%20Zoro
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BE%E3%83%AD
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q471682

Tags

• Abidjan Department
• association football player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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