Marcos González
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| Marcos González | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Marcos González | |
| Date of birth | June 9, 1980 (age 26) | |
| Place of birth | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
| Height | 6'2 | |
| Playing position | defender | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Columbus Crew | |
| Number | 6 | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1999-03 2003-05 2005 2006– |
Universidad de Chile Colón de Santa Fe CD Palestino Columbus Crew |
52 (4) 12 (1) 37 (3) 21 (0) |
| National team2 | ||
| 2002– | Chile | 5 (0) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Marcos González (born June 9, 1980 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Chilean professional football (soccer) defender who currently plays for the Columbus Crew in Major League Soccer. Although born in Brazil, he moved to Chile when he was two and has Chilean citzenship.
Marcos began his professional career in 1999 with Universidad de Chile, and stayed with them until 2003. He then signed with the Argentinian club Colón de Santa Fe and played with them until 2005. In 2005 he returned to Chile to play for Palestino, and for the 2006 season he chose to sign with the Columbus Crew over Universidad Católica.
He has represented Chile internationally 5 times, including in recent qualifiers for the 2006 World Cup.
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| Columbus Crew - Current Squad |
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2 Hejduk | 4 Pierce | 5 Moss | 6 González | 7 Thomas | 8 Oughton | 9 Garey | 10 Ngwenya | 11 Grabavoy | 12 Gaven | 13 Burch | 14 Marshall | 16 Kamara | 17 Szetela | 20 Ward | 23 Hendrickson | 24 Zayner | 25 Virtuoso | 28 Gruenebaum | 31 Gaudette | — Herron | — Hesmer | — O'Rourke | — Rogers | Coach: Schmid |
