Marco Zoro

Marco Zoro
Marco Zoro in the jersey of FC Messina in 2005
Personnel
Surname	Marco André Zoro Kpolo
birthday	December 27, 1983
place of birth	Abidjan ,  Ivory Coast
size	182 cm
position	Defense
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1999-2002	Salernitana Calcio	55 (1)
2003-2007	FC Messina	95 (4)
2007-2011	Benfica Lisbon	16 (1)
2008-2010	→  Vitória Setúbal  (loan)	30 (0)
2011	→  FC Universitatea Craiova  (loan)	14 (0)
2012-2013	SCO Angers	32 (2)
2013-2014	OFI Crete	27 (0)
2016-2017	AO Chania	3 (0)
2017–	Asteras Amaliada
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2003-2010	Ivory Coast	22 (1)
1 Only league games are given. As of December 31, 2016

Marco André Zoro Kpolo (born December 27, 1983 in Abidjan ), Marco Zoro for short , is an Ivorian football player who plays on the position of defender . He has been under contract with Asteras Amaliada since January 2017 .

Athletic career

Zoro moved in the 1999/00 season to Salernitana Calcio and thus for the first time to a foreign club. He stayed here for a total of three and a half years before joining FC Messina during the winter break of the 2002/03 season. In the 2003/04 season, the Sicilians made it to the highest Italian professional league, Serie A , where the club was able to assert itself. For the 2007/08 season Zoro moved to Benfica Lisbon to Portugal , where he could not fight for a regular place. In the winter break of the 2008/09 season he was put on the transfer list and trained for five days with the Blackburn Rovers . He was not committed, after which he was awarded to Vitória Setúbal until the end of the season within the league . The loan was extended for the 2009/10 season. In 2011 Zoro played in Romania , for Universitatea Craiova , where he had 14 appearances. From 2012 he moved from Universitatea Craiova to the French second division SCO Angers on a free transfer . After a year he joined the Greek club OFI Crete , which he also left after one season in 2014.

Then Zoro was without a club for two years before joining AO Chania in the Greek Football League in the summer of 2016 . He came to three short appearances as a substitute. In January 2017 he left the club to Asteras Amaliada in the Football League 2 .

From 2003 to 2010 Zoro came to irregular missions in the Ivorian national soccer team , with which he finished second in the 2006 African Cup of Nations, with a total of three appearances. In total, Zoro completed 22 games in the national jersey in which he scored a goal.

Racial slurs

Marco Zoro achieved sad notoriety on November 27, 2005 when, on the occasion of the Serie A game between FC Messina and Inter Milan, Inter fans wailed monkeys, boos and racist insults such as "dirty negro" etc. was insulted. In the 66th minute, Zoro took the ball, ran to his team's bench and initially refused to play. However, teammates and opposing players were able to persuade Zoro to finish the game. Then four Inter fans were banned from the stadium. Due to this and other similar incidents in Italian stadiums, all games were kicked off with a five-minute delay on the following match day. In solidarity with Marco Zoro and other dark-skinned players, a banner with the slogan "Stop racism" was rolled out on the following match day. Nevertheless, the events repeated on April 2, 2006 when it came to the second leg match between Messina and Inter Milan. Again Marco Zoro was insulted with racist screams.

successes

• 2nd place at the 2006 African Football Championship with the Ivorian national football team .

Web links

• Marco Zoro in the database of weltfussball.de
• Marco Zoro in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.soccerfame.de/transfer/7789/marc-zoro
2. ^ Cori razzisti, e il difensore interrompe la gara