Nino_(footballer,_born_1997)
Nino (footballer, born 1997)
Brazilian footballer
Marcilio Florencio Mota Filho commonly known as Nino (born 10 April 1997) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Russian Premier League club Zenit Saint Petersburg and the Brazil national team.[2]
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| Full name | Marcilio Florencio Mota Filho[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1997-04-10) 10 April 1997 (age 27)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Recife, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Centre-back | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Zenit Saint Petersburg | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 27 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport Recife | |||||||||||||||||
| Criciúma | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–2019 | Criciúma | 78 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019 | → Fluminense (loan) | 38 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2020–2023 | Fluminense | 138 | (8) | ||||||||||||||
| 2024– | Zenit Saint Petersburg | 8 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2020– | Brazil U23 | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Brazil | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 28 April 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14:49, 22 November 2023 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Nino is a product of the Sport Recife and Criciúma youth systems. On February 18, 2016, in a Campeonato Catarinense match against Camboriú, he made his debut for the main squad of the latter.[3] On May 20, 2017, in a match against Oeste, he made his debut in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B.[4] On June 17, 2018, in a match against Oeste, he scored his first goal for Criciúma.[5] At the beginning of 2019, Nino moved to Fluminense on a loan deal. On April 29, in a match against Goiás, he made his debut in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A.[6] On May 18, in a match against Cruzeiro, Nino scored his first goal for Fluminense.[7] At the end of the loan spell, the club exercised the option to purchase his transfer for 1.1 million euros. In 2023, he helped the club win the Copa Libertadores.
On 4 January 2024, Nino joined Russian Premier League club Zenit Saint Petersburg on a four-and-a-half year contract for a fee reported to be around €5 million.[8][9]
On 17 June 2021, Nino was named in the Brazilian squad for the 2020 Summer Olympics.[10]
In August 2023, he received his first call-up to the Brazil national team by interim head coach Fernando Diniz, for two 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Bolivia and Peru.[11][12] He made his debut on 21 November 2023 in a World Cup qualifier 0–1 home loss against Argentina, he substituted Marquinhos at half-time. That was Brazil's first home loss in World Cup qualifiers in history.[13]
- As of 21 April 2024[14]
| Club | Season | League | State League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Criciúma | 2016 | Série B | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1[lower-alpha 1] | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2017 | 24 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 2[lower-alpha 1] | 0 | 29 | 0 | |||
| 2018 | 29 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 46 | 1 | ||||
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 5 | 0 | ||||
| Subtotal | 53 | 1 | 25 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | 83 | 1 | |||
| Fluminense | 2019 | Série A | 36 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6[lower-alpha 2] | 0 | — | 50 | 1 | |
| 2020 | 26 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 40 | 4 | |||
| 2021 | 25 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8[lower-alpha 3] | 0 | — | 44 | 3 | |||
| 2022 | 30 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | — | 53 | 0 | |||
| 2023 | 26 | 2 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 11[lower-alpha 3] | 1 | — | 54 | 5 | |||
| Subtotal | 143 | 8 | 39 | 2 | 26 | 2 | 33 | 1 | — | 241 | 13 | |||
| Zenit Saint Petersburg | 2023–24 | Russian Premier League | 6 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | — | — | 9 | 0 | |||
| Career total | 202 | 9 | 64 | 2 | 31 | 2 | 33 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 333 | 14 | ||
- Appearance(s) in Primeira Liga
- Appearance(s) in Copa Sudamericana
- Appearance(s) in Copa Libertadores
Fluminense
- Taça Rio: 2020
- Taça Guanabara: 2022, 2023
- Campeonato Carioca: 2022, 2023
- Copa Libertadores: 2023
Brazil Olympic
- "FIFA Club World Cup Saudi Arabia 2023™: List of Players: Fluminense FC" (PDF). FIFA. 6 December 2023. p. 5. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 December 2023. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
- "Camboriú VS. Criciúma 3:5". soccerway.com. 18 February 2016. Archived from the original on 7 August 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- "Oeste VS. Criciúma 1:0". soccerway.com. 20 May 2017. Archived from the original on 7 August 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- "Oeste VS. Criciúma 2:2". soccerway.com. 17 June 2018. Archived from the original on 7 August 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- "Fluminense VS. Goiás 0:1". soccerway.com. 29 April 2019.
- "Fluminense VS. Cruzeiro 4:1". soccerway.com. 18 May 2019. Archived from the original on 7 August 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- "Нино — игрок "Зенита"!". FC Zenit Saint Petersburg (in Russian). 4 January 2024. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- "Zenit anuncia a contratação de Nino, que deixa o Fluminense". Globo Esporte (in Portuguese). 4 January 2024. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- "Seleção Olímpica é convocada para os Jogos Olímpicos de Tóquio 2020". CBF. 17 June 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- "Fernando Diniz convoca Seleção Brasileira para a estreia das Eliminatórias" (in Portuguese). CBF. 18 August 2023. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
- Mota, Cahê; Zarko, Raphael (18 August 2023). "Convocados da Seleção: veja a primeira lista de Fernando Diniz". ge (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 28 August 2023.
- "Brazil v Argentina game report". ESPN. 21 November 2023.
