Malcom (footballer)
Brazilian footballer (born 1997)
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- Malcom Filipe Silva de Oliveira (born 26 February 1997), or simply Malcom ( Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈmawkõ] ), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Saudi Pro League club Al Hilal.
- He began his career at Corinthians, making his professional debut in 2014 and winning the 2015 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A.
- He signed for Barcelona for an initial fee of €41 million in 2018.
- Malcom helped Zenit win the Russian Premier League in each of the four seasons he was with them, netting 38 goals in 84 league games along the way.
- In early 2014, he starred in the side that came runners-up to Santos in the Copa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior.
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WikipediaMalcom Filipe Silva de Oliveira (born 26 February 1997), or simply Malcom (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈmawkõ]), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Saudi Pro League club Al Hilal. He is mostly deployed as a right winger.
He began his career at Corinthians, making his professional debut in 2014 and winning the 2015 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. In January 2016, he transferred to Bordeaux, where he played 96 total games and scored 23 goals over the next two-and-a-half years. He signed for Barcelona for an initial fee of €41 million in 2018. A year later, he signed for Zenit Saint Petersburg for a fee of €40 million. Malcom helped Zenit win the Russian Premier League in each of the four seasons he was with them, netting 38 goals in 84 league games along the way.
Born in São Paulo, Malcom began his career in the youth of his hometown club Corinthians. In early 2014, he starred in the side that came runners-up to Santos in the Copa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior.
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