Juan Marcelo Casas Chamorro

Marcelo Casas
Personal information
Full name	Juan Marcelo Casas Chamorro
Date of birth	(1992 -04-14) 14 April 1992
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current team	Fulgencio Yegros
Number	–
Youth career
2004–2009	Libertad
2009–2013	Panathinaikos
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2010–2013	Panathinaikos	0	(0)
2015	22 de Septiembre
2016–	Fulgencio Yegros		(1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 8 September 2016.

Juan Marcelo Casas Chamorro (born 14 April 1992) commonly referred to as Marcelo Casas^[1] is a Paraguayan footballer who currently plays for Club Fulgencio Yegros in the Paraguayan Division Intermedia.^[2]

Career

Panathinaikos

On 10 December 2010, it was reported that Casas' former youth club Libertad would sue Panathinaikos for breach of trust.^[3] Casas had travelled to Greece in 2009 to trial with Panathinaikos after Libertad had received an invitation from Panathinaikos to trial the player for 30 days.^[4] According to Libertad, Panathinaikos had asked Libertad for a one month extension as the player was passing the trials. During that time, Panathinaikos had convinced Casas to continue at Panathinaikos without Libertad's permission and using the invitation as a trick and the player signed for the Greek club when he turned 18 years old.^[5] Libertad detailed that the club deserves expenses due to forming the player. "We brought him from the interior, we looked after him, we gave him food, we gave him home health, we formed him for four years to become a Libertad player and he is taken. It is a similar case to Juan Iturbe.^[6] The player had signed with the club on a Spanish passport,^[7] and was team mates with Greece U21 player Giorgos Machlelis and Australia U20 player Robert Stambolziev.

22 de Septiembre

Casas featured for 22 de Septiembre during the 2015 Primera División B Nacional.^[8]^[9] In October 2015, he featured during the promotion play-offs against Liga Ovetense as the latter eventually gained promotion to the 2016 División Intermedia.^[10] Subsequently, 22 de Septiembre were then forced to play a promotion play off against the runner-up of the Primera División B Metropolitana in order to ascend to the 2016 División Intermedia. In November 2015, Casas featured in both fixtures of the play-off against Club Fulgencio Yegros as 22 de Septiembre were defeated 4−2 on penalties after a 2−2 aggregate score.^[11]^[12]

Fulgencio Yegros

Casas made his first appearance for the club in Round 1 of the 2016 División Intermedia, playing a full 90 minutes of a 3−2 away victory against Ovetense.^[13] He then played a full 90 minutes in a 4−0 thrashing against Sport Colombia the following week.^[14] He would not play again until round 7 in a 1−0 away defeat against Sportivo Iteño.^[15] On 10 July 2016, he scores for the club in a 1−1 draw vs Ovetense.^[16]^[17]

Honours

Club

Panathinaikos

Superleague Greece: Runners-up, 1
- 2010–11

22 de Septiembre

Primera División B Nacional: Runners-up, 1
- 2015

References

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