Marcos Pizzelli

What fascinates me about Marcos Pizzelli is the geography of his identity. Born in Piracicaba, Brazil, he ended up representing Armenia internationally from 2008 to 2019, a pairing that reads like a small miracle of football's globalized era. I find these cross-border careers far more compelling than any goal tally. A Brazilian-born attacking midfielder becoming a fixture for a Caucasus nation says something tender about belonging, about how a passport and a heart can point in different directions. The records that reach me are thin, but the simple fact that he carried another country's hopes for over a decade is, to me, the mark of a genuinely interesting professional.

Name (English)

Marcos Pizzelli

Name (Japanese)

マルコス・ピニェイロ・ピッゼーリ

Reading

まるこす・ぴにぇいろ・ぴっぜーり

Born

October 3, 1984 (age 41)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Rat

Origin

Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil

Height

178 cm

Occupation

association football player

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%94%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%83%94%E3%83%83%E3%82%BC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA

Tags

• São Paulo
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.