Ceará (footballer)

Ceará in summer 2008

Marcos Venâncio de Albuquerque (mostly Ceará, more rarely, Marcos Ceara, born June 16, 1980 in Crato, Ceará ) is a Brazilian footballer. Since 2007 he plays in the highest league in French football, Ligue 1, where he comes to Paris SG used.

Career

Career start in the home

His active career as a football player began born in the town of Crato in the state of Ceará Marcos Venâncio de Albuquerque, who chose his stage name from his home state, in the young age at local club Grêmio Esportivo Osasco in the Stat Osasco, state of São Paulo. Earlier, Ceará, who was born as the eighth and youngest child of his parents on a farm in Crato, a hard time, so he moved with his family at the age of ten years after Osasco. After a few years in the local junior he came to a sighting in 1993 as a 13 -year-old finally to the top club in São Paulo, FC Santos, where he was sometimes also brought into the squad of the professional team. While he was with the professional team at mittrainierte 1999 - of any inserts nothing is known - Ceará frequently on loan has been linked to other clubs. So followed in 1999, including a change to leihweiser SE Gama. After that he came from the year 2000 in the state of São Paulo Championship in AA Portuguesa Santista used, which he still left in the same year to switch on as Players out on loan to São José EC. In 2001 a change was followed in the Série A for Santa Cruz FC, ​​for whom he ran aground in 19 scoreless championship games. In 2002, he finally had a cameo appearance in the Botafogo FC, ​​where he however failed to impress and was released back yet in the current season. His next club should finally be in the same year of Coritiba FC, ​​with whom he celebrated his first notable success. After only six scoreless championship stakes in the 2002, followed in the subsequent game in 2003 equal to 26 league appearances, in which he scored one goal. In addition, he was with his team this year and national champion of Paraná.

About São Caetano for SC Internacional

After these first significant success in club football Ceará abolished in 2004 the leap into the professional squad of AD São Caetano. At the club from the city of São Caetano do Sul, he could connect to his successes with Coritiba and won with the team in the season finale the national title of São Paulo. In the Séria A it brought the trained defender, who has already been used at this time increased as the left but also as a right-back, but at times 26 and inserts a hit. Back in 2005, followed for the then nearly 25 -year-olds, a change to the successful SC Internacional, with whom he celebrated some of the greatest successes in his career. He made ​​his debut on 25 June 2005 against the also very successful Sao Paulo, which has been announced in the same year for the FIFA Club World Cup. By the end of the season Marcos Venâncio de Albuquerque came so in 13 league games for use and also won the team national championship of Rio Grande do Sul in 2005. Moreover he could with the team in the Série A at the end of the season in second place in the table arrive and was three points behind Corinthians Sao Paulo vice-champion of the highest Brazilian soccer league.

His most successful season with the club, however, he finally celebrated in 2006 when he won the same number of titles with the team and also still acted as master force in the defensive line of Internacional. He was employed 31 league matches and scored three goals. At season's end he reached with the team with nine points behind the Sao Paulo again to second place and was also in the final standings of the State of São Paulo Championship in second place. Nevertheless, the team of Ceará in the Copa Libertadores did show that you could win for the first time in the club's history in the 2006. Ceará, who mostly wore the shirt number 14 at Inter, was likewise used in the final two games against FC São Paulo. While he was still being exchanged in the first leg in 56 minutes and replaced by Wellington de Oliveira Monteiro, he played in the decisive second leg over the full duration by. In the course of the entire petition of 1.78 m wide defender was used in ten games in which he had a hit. The victory in the Copa Libertadores, the team was also involved to participate in the FIFA Club World Cup 2006 in Japan. The team as a member of CONMEBOL together with FC Barcelona ( UEFA ) was only allowed to go into the competition from the semi-finals. In this case, the team managed a 2-1 victory over Al -Ahly Cairo to the final, where finally the FC Barcelona 1-0 was defeated. Ceará was in this encounter over the full duration in use.

2007 but could not connect to the successes of the previous year the team. The Recopa Sudamericana victory was the only title for the team this season. This year, the trained -back yet in ten league games ( 1 goal) was used, before he took shortly after a move to Europe. It could look back on a decent score of four goals from 55 league games, where he struck frequently by his defense actions and by his appearance in the Copa Libertadores and the Club World Cup and international associations drew attention to himself. After he had been much courted in this period, but had only just extended his contract with Inter until 2011, the French first division side Paris Saint- Germain secured the talent of the Brazilian defender and signed him for a transfer fee of kolportierten two to two and a half million Euros. In the French capital club, he signed a contract with a term of three years.

Aspiring full-back in Paris SG

His league debut for Paris Saint- Germain gave Marcos Venâncio de Albuquerque, who is in France also often called Marcos Ceará, on September 16, 2007 with a 2-1 success over AS Monaco. He was still on in the 84 minutes for the striker Amara Diané, but was constant strain force in the back line of the Paris Club and was rarely on or exchanged through the remainder of the season away. Already in his second championship used a 1:3 home defeat against Stade Rennes on October 6, 2007, he scored in the 57th minute and his first single season hits as he assisted by David N'Gog to 1-1 draw met. By the end of the season was away Ceará involved with the team for a long time in the relegation battle, the one, however, still won shortly before the season ends. The Brazilian defender actor was employed in a total of 30 championship games and acted as one of the pillars of the team. Although the awkward position in the league, it ran in the two French Cup competitions to measure. So he made it a total of five scoreless inserts in the French League Cup with the team to the finals, where they eventually still almost beat RC Lens 2-1. In French Football Cup of the season 2007 /08 they managed to Paris also to the cup final, and resigned there in extra time after a goal from Sidney Govou against Olympique Lyon.

In 2008 /09 Ceará brought his achievements and was once again the driving force in the trailing team of Paris Saint- Germain. He was used to the end of the season in almost every league game remained scoreless this year, however, but made with four assists twice as many as in the previous season. He also acted in the UEFA Cup 2008/ 09, the Paris belonged from the first round, as a guarantor with his assists. A total of nine UEFA Cup inserts that he graduated to the departure of his team in the quarter-final against Dynamo Kiev, he put on three goals for his teammates. After the team in the league again experienced a boom, thereby penetrated to sixth place in the table and also barely Europa League qualification or play-off starting places missed, the team suffered in the Coupe de France a quick end and also in the League Cup was not talking about the semi-final addition. After a season without a title PSG celebrated only in the season 2009/10, their next title. In the summer of Ceará extended his expiring contract in 2010 for another three years until summer 2012. The season 2009/10 he spent up to a few games in which he missed due to injury, another time as a support of PSG. By the end of the season so he could look back on 29 league inserts and an assist. The team, however, he slipped from the 13 place in the table and was even briefly represented in a relegation battle. Although the performances in the league, the team triumphed again in a Cup competition. The Paris won the French Football Cup 2009 /10 and were involved through this for participating in the play-offs of the UEFA Europa League 2010/ 11, where the team was finally represented in a long time. Other achievements in 2010 were in the finals at the French Super Cup and the tournament in Paris.

After initially good phase Ceará suffered in the 2010/11 season a performance hit, which among other things also goes back to an injury he suffered still in the initial phase of the new season. After he initially acted always on the full playing time, he tried to get back into the team as a regular force, which sometimes succeeded him after his injury. But even after it had found back into the team, he came to the part only sporadic inserts and was even set up in February 2011, only as a substitute for a few minutes. His to date (as of 30 March 2011) last championship, he completed application on 27 February 2011 in a 2-1 home win against Toulouse FC. Previously, he broke in November 2010 after an elbow to the face, the nose, which is why he had to have surgery and it also missed a game this season after. Increasingly still came Ceará in the Europa League action after he narrowly participation with a total score of 5:4 fixed with the team against Maccabi Tel Aviv, and established itself in the connection in the group stage with the Parisians as one of the best teams. Only in the second round followed by a total score of 2:3 against Benfica departure from the current competition.

Return home

After five year in Paris Ceará left the club. He returned to his homeland for Cruzeiro Esporte Clube from Belo Horizonte.

Achievements

• 2x runner-up of Series A: 2005 and 2006
• 1x National Champion of Rio Grande do Sul: 2005
• 1x Vice- champion of Rio Grande do Sul: 2006
• 1x winner of the Copa Libertadores: 2006
• 1x Recopa Sudamericana winner of the: 2007
• 1x FIFA Club World Cup: 2006

Family / Private / Trivia

• He and his wife Fernanda Ceará has three children, two daughters and a son.

• Besides Portuguese Ceará also speaks fluent French.

• The number of Brazilians very religious football player is active in addition to his sporting activity as Protestant or evangelical pastor.