Marcos Tavares

Marcos Tavares
Tavares with Maribor in November 2017
Personal information
Full name Marcos Magno Morales Tavares[1]
Date of birth (1984-03-30) 30 March 1984 (age 40)
Place of birth Porto Alegre, Brazil
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1993–1997 Internacional
1997–2002 Grêmio
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003 Grêmio 1 (0)
2004 Kedah (11)
2005 Atlético Paranaense 0 (0)
2005–2006 Kedah (14)
2006–2007 Porto Alegre
2007 APOEL 5 (0)
2008–2022 Maribor 436 (159)
International career
Brazil U17
Brazil U20
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Marcos Magno Morales Tavares (born 30 March 1984) is a retired Brazilian footballer who played as a striker. Tavares spent 15 seasons with Slovenian team Maribor, and is the club's all-time most capped player and top goalscorer.[2] He is also the all-time top goalscorer of Slovenian top division with 159 goals.[3]

At international level, Tavares was part of the Brazilian youth national teams from under-17 to under-20.[4][5]

  1. ^ a b "Marcos Tavares – osebni karton" (in Slovenian). NK Maribor. Archived from the original on 15 May 2022. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  2. ^ "Naj strelci in naj nastopi" [Top goalscorers and most capped players] (in Slovenian). NK Maribor. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
  3. ^ "Slovenian PrvaLiga all-time statistics" (in Slovenian). Slovenian PrvaLiga. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  4. ^ "SELEÇÃO BRASILEIRA SUB-17 (U-17 BRAZILIAN NATIONAL TEAM) 1985–2007". rsssfbrasil.com (in Portuguese). Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  5. ^ "King's Cup 2000 (Bangkok, Thailand)". RSSSF. Retrieved 21 August 2017.