Sevilla and Turkish Galatasaray have reached an agreement in principle for the transfer of Brazilian central defender Marcos do Nascimento Teixeira, ‘Marcao’, to the Andalusian club, where he will sign a contract until June 2027, at the cost of exceeding the set mandatory medical identification.
Sevilla announced this operation on Friday, representing the first signing of sevillists for the next campaign, and, although as usual, does not offer numbers, it has emerged in various media that will pay it’s 12 million euros at the Istanbul club, plus. the others are 3 of the variables, for Marcao’s signing.
The Spanish club said Marcao, who just turned 26 and will replace his compatriot Diego Carlos Santos, has moved to English club Aston Villa, is expected to join the concentration of his new team in Seoul this weekend, where the Sevilla expedition arrives this Friday and will start work on Saturday.
Born in Londrina, in the state of Paraná, the new Sevilla defender trained at Atlético Paranaense and, after a brief loan to Avaí, with whom he made his professional debut, he returned to his home club to play five games and score. of the goal in the championship of said Brazilian state.
Without a place in the first team, he was successively replaced by Guaratinguetá and his country’s Ferroviaria to return in May 2016 to Atlético Paranaense, where he played 18 games between national and district tournaments and where he scored a goal.
In June 2017 he joined Atlético Goianense, again on loan, although a month later he jumped on Portuguese Rio Ave, where he came on loan with a purchase option for the 2017-18 season.
In the Portuguese League he found regularity and on Rio Ave he played 20 league games, one in the Portuguese Cup and four in the League Cup, until the summer of 2018 he was transferred to GD Chaves, who was at the top category also. lusa and with him he played all the official minutes -24 games and three goals- of the first half of the year.
In the winter market of the said campaign, Galatasaray took the services of Marcao, who played in the second half of the 2018-19 season in 15 against the Turkish League, four in the Cup and two in the Europa League, and won its debut in Turkey the league title and the cup tournament.
That same summer he also won the Super Cup in a match against Akishar, this is the last title of his record to date, and in the 2019-20 financial year he played another 28 league games and four in the Turkish Cup, in addition to debut in the Champions League, with 6 games in the group stage against Real Madrid, PSG and Bruges.
Marcao, a 1.85-meter-tall left-handed central defender who excels in his strength and great ball movement, has established himself as the bulwark of Galatasaray’s defense over the last two seasons, with 37 and 26 league games, respectively, three from the Cup, three from the Europa League and 9 from the last Champions League.
Source: La Verdad
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