Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Marcilio Florencio Mota Filho[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | [1] | 10 April 1997||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Recife, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Centre-back | ||||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||||
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 | 3 | (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 30 March 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]
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]
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 | 3 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | — | — | 5 | 0 | |||
Career total | 199 | 9 | 64 | 2 | 30 | 2 | 33 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 329 | 14 |
Fluminense
Brazil Olympic