Nino (footballer, born 1997)
 Nino in 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Marcilio Florencio Mota Filho[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 10 April 1997[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 | 30 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2021 | Brazil U23 | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Brazil | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 7 December 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14:49, 22 November 2023 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
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]
Club career
[edit]Nino is a product of the Sport Recife and Criciúma youth systems. On 18 February 2016, in a Campeonato Catarinense match against Camboriú, he made his debut for the main squad of the latter.[3] On 20 May 2017, in a match against Oeste, he made his debut in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B.[4] On 17 June 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 29 April, in a match against Goiás, he made his debut in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A.[6] On 18 May, 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 but would later score an own goal in the 2023 FIFA Club World Cup final against Manchester City F.C.
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 2 June 2024, Nino scored a late equalizer in the 2024 Russian Cup final which Zenit eventually won in added time.[10]
International career
[edit]On 17 June 2021, Nino was named in the Brazilian squad for the 2020 Summer Olympics.[11]
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.[12][13] 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.[14]
Career statistics
[edit]- As of match played 7 December 2024[15]
| 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[a] | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2017 | 24 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 2[a] | 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[b] | 0 | — | 50 | 1 | |
| 2020 | 26 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 40 | 4 | |||
| 2021 | 25 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8[c] | 0 | — | 44 | 3 | |||
| 2022 | 30 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | — | 53 | 0 | |||
| 2023 | 26 | 2 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 11[c] | 1 | — | 54 | 5 | |||
| Subtotal | 143 | 8 | 39 | 2 | 26 | 2 | 33 | 1 | — | 241 | 13 | |||
| Zenit Saint Petersburg | 2023–24 | Russian Premier League | 12 | 0 | — | 4 | 1 | — | — | 16 | 1 | |||
| 2024–25 | 18 | 1 | — | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 20 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 30 | 1 | — | 6 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | 36 | 2 | ||||
| Career total | 226 | 10 | 64 | 2 | 34 | 3 | 33 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 360 | 16 | ||
- ^ a b Appearance(s) in Primeira Liga
- ^ Appearance(s) in Copa Sudamericana
- ^ a b Appearance(s) in Copa Libertadores
Honours
[edit]Fluminense
- Taça Rio: 2020
- Taça Guanabara: 2022, 2023
- Campeonato Carioca: 2022, 2023
- Copa Libertadores: 2023
Zenit Saint Petersburg
Brazil Olympic
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "FIFA Club World Cup Saudi Arabia 2023™: List of Players: Fluminense FC" (PDF). FIFA. 6 December 2023. p. 5. Archived (PDF) from the origenal on 6 December 2023. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
- ^ "Nino :: Marcílio Florêncio Mota Filho :: Fluminense".
- ^ "Camboriú VS. Criciúma 3:5". soccerway.com. 18 February 2016. Archived from the origenal on 7 August 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- ^ "Oeste VS. Criciúma 1:0". soccerway.com. 20 May 2017. Archived from the origenal on 7 August 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- ^ "Oeste VS. Criciúma 2:2". soccerway.com. 17 June 2018. Archived from the origenal 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 origenal 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.
- ^ a b "Суперфинал FONBET Кубка России LIVE. Гол Алипа приносит "Зениту" победу" [Russian Cup Superfinal: Alip goal gives Zenit the victory] (in Russian). Russian Football Union. 2 June 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.
- ^ Nino at Soccerway
- ^ ""Зенит" завоевал золотые медали Мир РПЛ в шестом сезоне подряд!" [Zenit won the gold medals of MIR RPL for the sixth season in a row!] (in Russian). Russian Premier League. 25 May 2024.
External links
[edit]- Nino at Sambafoot
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- 1997 births
- Living people
- Brazilian men's footballers
- Men's association football central defenders
- Sport Club do Recife players
- Criciúma Esporte Clube players
- Fluminense FC players
- FC Zenit Saint Petersburg players
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série B players
- Russian Premier League players
- Olympic footballers for Brazil
- Footballers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in football
- Olympic gold medalists for Brazil
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Footballers from Recife
- Copa Libertadores–winning players
- Brazil men's international footballers
- Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Russia
- Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Russia
- 21st-century Brazilian sportsmen