Marcao will play in Bundesliga

Mihassol, the native club of the Brazilian striker Marcao, known to Russian football fans for several months of performances for the Moscow Spartak, attached it to the Saint Pauli team. According to RIA Novosti, the Hamburg club signed a contract with the Marcao until June 30, 2004. The amount of the publicity of publicity does not indulge, however, according to the representatives of the St. Pauli, it is lower than the club record of 2.75 million marks paid by Aachen from Aachen for the midfielder of the Uzuri Insmann. According to the manager of the Hamburgs Stefan Byutel, after drawing up the transaction, the St. Pauli still remains about 3 million marks to further strengthen the composition.

Returning to the Bundesliga "St. Pauli" extremely unsuccessfully started in the new season: with 2 points, he together with Wolfsburg shares the last place in the standings. In addition, the team revealed obvious problems in the attack line - in 4 matches, only 1 goal was scored.

The Marcao, who clearly showed himself last fall in the Champions League matches, this year ceased to fall into the main composition of Spartak and, using the clause in the contract, was released back to Brazil. In his homeland, he explained his departure "bad conditions for training in Moscow." Earlier, in the summer off -season, an attempt to employ Markao in South Korea failed to employ the Summer.