Serie D side announce signing of Flamengo title winner | OneFootball

Marcelo Cirino won the 2017 Campeonato Carioca with Flamengo

Brazil’s Série D will feature striker Marcelo Cirino. That is because Brasiliense-DF announced this Thursday (18) the former Flamengo player as a reinforcement for the knockout stage. The player won a state title with the Rubro-Negro.

Thus, the club from the Federal District signed the 34-year-old player at no cost. He scored three goals in 12 matches for Amazonas. The termination of his contract with the Série C team came after Cirino’s physical problems.

When did Marcelo Cirino play for Flamengo?

“I don’t know if I’ll reach Zico’s level, but I hope to become an idol,” Marcelo Cirino said in one of his first interviews wearing the Manto Sagrado. That is how the striker arrived at the Rubro-Negro in 2015, after becoming the breakout player of the 2013 Brasileirão.

However, the player did not leave fans with fond memories. The forward scored 23 goals and provided two assists in two seasons for Mengo. As a result, the board decided to loan him first to Internacional, then to Al-Nasr (UAE).

So did they buy Cirino?

However, neither club wanted to trigger the purchase option. So Flamengo had no choice but to negotiate his transfer with the team he came from: Athletico-PR. The player ended his spell with Mengão in 2018 with only the 2017 Campeonato Carioca title.

Is Marcelo Cirino arriving at Brasiliense alone?

In fact, the DF team also announced the signing of David Braz, a center back who scored the title-winning goal in the 2009 Brasileirão for Flamengo. So, the capital-side squad hopes to survive in Série D with two former rubro-negros.

After all, the team struggled to get through the group stage, while rival Gama steamrolled everyone in the group. So Brasiliense hopes to improve in the tournament’s knockout stage, in which six teams are promoted to Série C.

And Flamengo in the market?

So far, the first team squad has not made any moves in the market. However, the club has agreed to sell Ryan Roberto from Flamengo U-20 to Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR). The deal could reach 10 million euros (R$ 58.79 million).

Still in the youth ranks, Flamengo hopes to sign striker Gustavo Puskas for the U-20 team. Flamengo’s offer is R$ 3.5 million to Vila Nova, which would keep 20% of the player’s economic rights.

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