Marquinhos (footballer, born April 1982)

Marquinhos is the kind of footballer whose story interests me more than his stat line. Born in Campinas, Brazil, he ended up representing Bulgaria internationally, and that single fact says a lot about how modern football scatters talent across borders. A 184 cm midfielder carries the unglamorous burden of linking defense to attack, and doing so far from home, under a flag he adopted, takes real adaptability. I find these naturalized careers quietly fascinating. They remind me that a player's identity is rarely as simple as the country of his birth, and that football itself is a kind of migration.

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Name (English)

Marquinhos (footballer, born April 1982)

Name (Japanese)

マルコス・アントニオ・マラシアス・ジュニオール

Reading

まるこす・あんとにお・まらしあす・じゅにおーる

Born

April 30, 1982 (age 44)

Origin

Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

Height

184 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Dog

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquinhos%20(footballer%2C%20born%20April%201982)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%8B%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A5%E3%83%8B%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q766609

Tags

• São Paulo
• association football 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.