Piracaia (footballer)
Brazilian footballer
Marcelo Gonçalves de Oliveira (born April 17, 1971 in São Paulo), known as Piracaia, is a Brazilian football player. He currently plays and works as an assistant coach for the Finnish second-tier club Musan Salama.
Piracaia has played 17 seasons and 324 matches in Finnish Veikkausliiga. In the six games of the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League group stage he was in the opening line-up of HJK Helsinki. Piracaia has also played in the top divisions of Sweden, Algeria and Tunisia.
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