Marcelo Machado

Marcelinho Machado
Player information
Full name	Marcelo Magalhães Machado
Nickname	Marcelinho
birthday	12th April 1975 (age 45)
place of birth	Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
size	200 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	Small Forward / Shooting Guard
Clubs as active
0000–1996 Fluminense Rio de Janeiro 1996–1997 Tijuca Tênis Clube 1997–1998 Corinthians Santa Cruz do Sul 1998–2001 Botafogo Rio de Janeiro 2001–2002 Fluminense Rio de Janeiro 2002–2003 Basket Rimini Crabs 2003–2004 Cantabria Lobos 2004–2005 Telemar Rio de Janeiro 2005–2006 Unitri Uberlândia 2006–2007 Žalgiris Kaunas 2007–2018 Flamengo Rio de Janeiro
National team
1998-2014	Brazil

Marcelo Machado medal table
Basketball (men)
Brazil
American Championship
silver	2001 Neuquén
gold	2005 Santo Domingo
gold	2009 San Juan
silver	2011 Mar del Plata
Pan American Games
gold	1999 Winnipeg
gold	2003 Santo Domingo
gold	2007 Rio de Janeiro

Marcelo "Marcelinho" Magalhães Machado (born April 12, 1975 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a former Brazilian basketball player . The greatest successes of the national player and Olympic participant include winning the FIBA American Championship twice and winning the Pan American Games three times . With his last club CR Flamengo, Machado won the FIBA ​​Americas League and the Intercontinental Cup 2014 as well as six Brazilian championships with Flamengo alone.

Machado also won various individual awards as top scorer and Most Valuable Player (MVP) in these competitions. He only tried briefly abroad and played two seasons in Italy and Spain and later one season with Žalgiris Kaunas in Lithuania before returning to his home country, where he finally achieved his greatest successes with Flamengo and for which he was still in 2016 the top division is active.

Career

Machado began his career with Fluminense Rio de Janeiro in his hometown before he was also recommended for the men's national team through the clubs of Tijuca and Corinthians from Santa Cruz do Sul . After Brazil's idol Oscar Schmidt resigned from the national team after the 1996 Olympic Games , Machado made his debut for the first time in a final squad at the 1998 World Cup finals at the age of 23 , in which he was only used in the first two games, as Brazil after only two Wins from eight games in the end reached tenth place out of 16 participants.

After he moved back to Botafogo in his hometown, the national team at the Torneo de las Américas in 1999 missed the qualification for the Olympic Games in the following year quite clearly when they could only achieve one victory in the second round. In the subsequent Pan American Games in 1999 in Winnipeg , the Brazilian selection, however reached the third tournament victory in 1971 and 1987 than one to a preliminary round loss to a selection of the United States , which now for this tournament players in the minor league CBA was formed , could win all games by at least ten points. In the final you could clearly defeat the Americans with a difference of 17 points 95:78.

Two years later, the 2001 Torneo de las Américas in Neuquén qualified for the 2002 World Cup . In the preliminary round, Brazil won all games except for one defeat after extra time against hosts Argentina and finally reached the World Cup qualification and the tournament final, in which the Argentines, who at the following World Championships and Olympic Games as "Generación Dorada" still for Should cause a sensation, tournament MVP Manu Ginóbili clearly lost with almost twenty points difference.

After three years at Botafogo, Machado finally returned to Fluminense in 2001 and was the internal top scorer for the Brazilian selection at the 2002 World Cup in Indianapolis with almost 21 points per game , with tournament MVP Dirk Nowitzki even outstripping him. After the Brazilian selection had won all of the first four games, they lost in the second round the game against eventual world champions BR Yugoslavia with a 21-point difference 69:90 and finally all the remaining games, including quarter-finals and placement games. Machado's individual performances were, however, a recommendation for a professional contract in Europe and so he left the troubled Brazilian league afterwards.

In the 2002/03 season Machado played in Italy for the former first division club Crabs Basket from Rimini in the Legadue . However, last year's relegated team again missed entry into the play-offs for promotion and return to the top division in ninth place . After Brazil was able to convincingly defend its title win in the final against host Dominican Republic at the Pan American Games in 2003 , the Olympic qualification at the Torneo de las Américas in 2003 in the neighboring Caribbean island state of Puerto Rico was again disappointing, when they lost all four intermediate round games. In the following season, Machado also played in Spain for a former first division club in the LEB at Cantabria Lobos from Torrelavega together with Ginóbili's older brother Sebastián and the US-Austrian Paris Bryant, among others . The previous year’s relegated team also missed entry into the promotion play-offs in eleventh place.

After Machado had initially had only modest success in European club basketball, he returned to Brazil for the time being and played in his hometown for Telemar, with whom he won his first Brazilian championship in 2005 as the top scorer of the league. Two years after winning the title at the Pan American Games, the Dominican capital, Santo Domingo, once again proved to be very promising when it came to qualifying for the World Cup at the tournament, which was held for the first time in 2005 as the FIBA American Championship . Although they lost three of eight games in the preliminary and intermediate rounds , it was enough in the knockout rounds to win more than ten points over the United States and Argentina and the first tournament victory since the 1980s in the previous one Torneo de las Americas . Machado from the winning team, as the tournament's top scorer with a good 23 points per game, was also named MVP of the championship and was therefore preferred to more prominent teammates such as Anderson Varejão , Leandro Barbosa , Marcelo Huertas and Tiago Splitter . A training camp at Varejãos NBA club Cleveland Cavaliers did not lead to a long-term engagement with the now 30-year-old Machado.

In the following season there was a momentous confrontation between the Brazilian league and the Nossa Liga de Basquete initiated by Oscar Schmidt , which ultimately led to the premature end and failure of the previous championship. Machado's new team Telemig / Unitri from Uberlândia had won their preliminary group at this point. Before the Novo Basquete Brasil (NBB) was reintroduced as a reunited league, Machado moved back to Europe after the disappointing World Cup finals in 2006 , in which the Brazilians could only win one round game against the overwhelmed Qatar , where he this time at the European top club Žalgiris also played in the highest-ranking European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2006/07 . However, Žalgiris won only two of 14 preliminary round games in international competition and was eliminated early. After the team from Kaunas had lost the final of the Baltic Basketball League against Lietuvos rytas Vilnius , as in the previous year , they could at least get back the championship title in the Lithuanian league LKL from their arch rivals.

After a rather moderate throwing rate and injury problems, Machado returned to Brazil. At the Pan American Games 2007 in front of a home crowd in Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian selection with Machado was able to perfect the title hat-trick and at the American Championship 2007 , which was played as an Olympic qualification , it was enough to make it to the semi-finals. After losing to the reigning Olympic champion Argentina, however, they missed direct Olympic qualification and also lost the "small final" for the bronze medal against Puerto Rico . Despite a good eleven points per game, Machado was by far no longer the dominant scorer as it was two years before, and Barbosa and Splitter also contributed more points within the Brazilian selection. At the pre-Olympic qualifying tournament in Athens in 2008 , however, Brazil lost the knockout game against Germany in the quarter-finals after Dirk Nowitzki was able to fulfill his dream of participating in the Olympic Games, and the Brazilian selection missed one for the third time in a row Participation in the Olympic Games.

After his return to Brazil in 2007, Machado, who had previously been active for Fluminense and Botafogo in addition to smaller clubs in Rio, played for CR Flamengo, where the " Paulista " Oscar Schmidt had also ended his active career. Flamengo won the NBB championships in 2008 and 2009 in the final against UniCEUB from Brasilia . After a sweep in 2008 and a final series over the maximum number of games in 2009, they finally lost the final series in 2010 in just under five games against their rivals from the capital. Marcelinho was usually the top scorer of the league and season MVP in all three seasons and was also MVP of the Liga Sudamericana when Flamengo won the title in 2009. Finally, in March 2010, he surpassed a record by "Mão Santa" Óscar when he scored 63 points and four more than Oscar Schmidt in a single game and hit 16 throws from beyond the three-point line .

Four years after Santo Domingo 2005, the Brazilian selection had again made it to the World Cup qualification with the tournament victory at the American Championships in 2009 , when after the only tournament defeat in the intermediate round against the host Puerto Rico they were able to defeat them in the final by just one point. At the 2010 World Cup in Japan, they reached the newly introduced round of 16, in which they were defeated by neighbor Argentina with a margin of four points 89:93. In contrast, the selection at the 2011 American Championships was able to defeat hosts Argentina in the second round by two points and finally reached the finals, which meant direct qualification for the 2012 Olympic Games.

In the final in Mar del Plata, the Brazilians then lost to the hosts by five points and failed to defend their title in this competition. This enabled Machado to fulfill his dream of participating in the Olympic Games, although at the age of 37 he was only a role player at the Olympic basketball tournament in London in 2012 in a selection with various teammates from the NBA and Euroleague clubs. In the preliminary round they lost only the group game against the later medal winner Russia , whereby Machado was able to score double-digit points in the clear victory over China with ten individual points. In the quarter-finals in the 77-82 defeat, Argentina again prevented entry into the medal round, so that Brazil was classified fifth without further placement games.

After Flamengo had missed the championship final twice in the play-off semi-final series in 2011 and 2012, Machado returned with the team in 2013 to the final, which was now played as a single game. Against his former club from Uberlândia they won 77:70 and secured another championship and re-participation in the FIBA ​​Americas League. In this competition, Flamengo won the final against the national competitor and defending champion EC Pinheiros in 2014 with 85:78 and the 39-year-old Machado was once again awarded individually as the final MVP. After defending the title in the Brazilian championship, Machado was reactivated for the Brazilian national team, which only defeated hosts Spain in the preliminary round of the 2014 World Cup and finally defeated Argentina by 20 points in the round of 16, before the selection in the quarter-finals all the more clearly defeated the later vice world champion Serbia .

At the beginning of the following season, Flamengo was able to win the reintroduced Intercontinental Cup against Euroleague winner Maccabi Tel Aviv for the first time, making it the first South American winner in over 30 years in the only sporadic competition. In the Americas League 2015, Flamengo lost the semi-finals as defending champion with one point difference against the Mexican team Pioneros from Quintana Roo and another year later with two points difference against the defending champion and national competitor from Bauru , who is, however, in the national championship defeated twice in the final series in 2015 and 2016. Even if Machado is no longer actively participating in the 2016 Olympic Games in his hometown, the popular athlete in his home country is considered an ambassador for his sport and for Rio in particular.

successes

National team

• American champions 2005 , 2009
• Title win at the Pan American Games in 1999, 2003, 2007

society

• American League 2014
• League Sudamericana 2009
• Brazilian champion 2005, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
• Lithuanian champion 2007

Web links

• Marcelo Magalhães Machado - player profile on the website of the Brazilian LNB ( Portuguese )
• Marcelo MARCELINHO - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)
• Marcelo Machado - Profile in the "Hall da Fama" on the website of the Brazilian Association (Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thirteenth Pan American Games - 1999. USA Basketball , December 2, 2010, accessed August 14, 2016 (English, tournament report). 
2. ↑ En Neuquén 2001, la Generación Dorada del básquet argentino, sentaba las bases. (No longer available online.) Diario de Mendoza: mdzol.com, August 22, 2011, archived from the original on September 23, 2013 ; Retrieved August 14, 2016 (Spanish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Legadue Basket: Marcelo Machado. Legadue , archived from the original on January 17, 2006 ; accessed on August 14, 2016 (Italian, player profile with statistics). 
4. ↑ FEB.es: MAGALHAES MACHADO, MARCELO. Federación Española de Baloncesto , accessed on August 14, 2016 (Spanish, player profile with statistics). 
5. ↑ FEB.es: LEB 2003/2004 - ALERTA CANTABRIA LOBOS. Federación Española de Baloncesto , accessed August 14, 2016 (Spanish, roster). 
6. ^ BNL: Season 2004-2005. Eurobasket Inc .: Latinbasket.com, accessed on August 14, 2016 (English, season summary). 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Brazil strike gold. FIBA , September 5, 2005, accessed on August 14, 2016 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b} Unida, LNB traz Globo e revigora basquete. Máquina do Esporte, archived from the original on April 14, 2014 ; Retrieved August 14, 2016 (Portuguese). 
9. ↑ MACHADO, MARCELINHO. Euroleague , accessed on August 14, 2016 (English, player profile). 
10. ↑ Benetton Basket vs. Zalgiris - The Take. Euroleague , October 2006, accessed on August 14, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Liga Sudamericana - Flamengo capture title after Marcelinho master class. (No longer available online.) FIBA , March 13, 2009, archived from the original on August 14, 2016 ; accessed on August 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Marcelinho supera a Óscar Schmidt: ¡anota 63 puntos y 16 triples! As , March 15, 2010, accessed August 14, 2016 (Spanish). 
13. ↑ Basketball stars Marcelinho Machado and Irio Nunes would like to check out your best shots. 2016 Summer Olympics : Rio2016.com, October 9, 2013, accessed August 14, 2016 .