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Marcelo Pletsch Personal information Full name Marcelo José Pletsch Date of birth 13 May 1976 Place of birth Toledo, Brazil Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) Playing position Defender (retired) Club information Current club Cascavel Number TBA Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 1998 Ceará 1998–1999 Oliveirense 1999–2005 Borussia Mönchengladbach 142 (3) 2005–2006 Kaiserslautern 22 (1) 2006–2008 Panionios 44 (6) 2008–2009 Omonia 35 (0) 2009–2010 Vojvodina 23 (1) 2011– Cascavel * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).Marcelo José Pletsch (born 13 May 1976 in Toledo, Paraná) is a Brazilian football defender.
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Club career
He played with Ceará Sporting Club and Portuguese lower league club Oliveirense[1] before coming to Germany in 1999 where he first played for Borussia Mönchengladbach. The first two seasons his team has played in the 2. Bundesliga and then to the next four seasons he played in the 1. Bundesliga. For six years at the club, he made a total of 142 league appearances and scored 3 goals.
Then he moved to Kaiserslautern where he played in the 2005–06 season.[2] After a year of playing in Kaiserslautern, he left Germany and moved to Panionios the member of the Greek Superleague.[3][4] During his time at Panionios he made 44 league appearances and scored 6 goals.
In January 2008 he moved to Cypriot club AC Omonia, for which he played a year and a half, making 35 league appearances without a goal achieved.[5]
On 17 July 2009, it was announced that he signed a one plus one year contract with Serbian SuperLiga club FK Vojvodina.[6][7]
In February 2011 he returned to Brazil to play with Futebol Clube Cascavel.[8]
Club statistics
Season Club Competition Apps Goals 1999–00 Borussia Mönchengladbach 
2. Bundesliga28 0 2000–01 Borussia Mönchengladbach 2. Bundesliga26 0 2001–02 Borussia Mönchengladbach Bundesliga27 0 2002–03 Borussia Mönchengladbach Bundesliga26 2 2003–04 Borussia Mönchengladbach Bundesliga16 0 2004–05 Borussia Mönchengladbach Bundesliga19 1 2005–06 Kaiserslautern Bundesliga22 1 2006–07 Panionios 
Superleague27 3 2007–08 Panionios Superleague17 3 2007–08 Omonia 
First Division12 0 2008–09 Omonia First Division23 0 2009–10 Vojvodina 
SuperLiga23 1 Total 266 11 References
- ^ Profile at Zerozero.
- ^ Kaiserslautern verpflichtet Marcelo Pletsch (in German), rp-online.de.
- ^ Lienen holt Pletsch (in German), transfermarkt.de.
- ^ Lienen holt FCK-Verteidiger Pletsch nach Athen (in German), rp-online.de.
- ^ Μαρτσέλλο Πλετς (in Greek), omonia.net.
- ^ Pletsch zu Vojvodina (in German), transfermarkt.de.
- ^ Brazilac oduševljen Vojvodinom (in Serbian), sportske.net.
- ^ Cascavel contrata zagueiro experiente com passagem pela Alemanha at Gazeta do Povo
External links
- Marcelo Pletsch at fussballdaten.de
Categories:- 1976 births
- Living people
- Brazilian footballers
- Association football central defenders
- Borussia Mönchengladbach players
- 1. FC Kaiserslautern players
- Fußball-Bundesliga players
- Panionios G.S.S. players
- Superleague Greece players
- AC Omonia players
- FK Vojvodina players
- Serbian SuperLiga players
- Brazilian expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Portugal
- Expatriate footballers in Germany
- Expatriate footballers in Greece
- Expatriate footballers in Cyprus
- Expatriate footballers in Serbia
- UD Oliveirense players
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