{"id":511062,"date":"2025-07-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/maccabi-signs-center-marcio-santos\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T06:58:14","slug":"maccabi-signs-center-marcio-santos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/maccabi-signs-center-marcio-santos\/","title":{"rendered":"Maccabi Signs Center Marcio Santos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"responsive-video-container\" style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hv25YfrIhas\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv has signed Marcio Santos to a three-year contract. The young Brazilian center (2.04 meters, 22 years old) played last season in Germany for Ulm, showing great potential and the ability to shoot from long range (44.1% from three in the EuroCup). He&rsquo;s a mobile center, not afraid of contact, draws a lot of fouls and has good footwork.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Marcio Santos is a versatile player who can help us a lot,&rdquo; explained coach Oded Katash to the official website. &ldquo;He can finish plays near the rim and step outside to shoot. He plays with passion and enthusiasm that suit us, and knows how to show toughness and defensive aggressiveness.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">We are very happy with Marcio&#8217;s arrival to Maccabi&#8221;, GM Claudio Coldebella told maccabi.co.il. &#8220;He&rsquo;s contributed to winning wherever he&rsquo;s played, and he&rsquo;s still young and trending upwards as player. Thanks of his potential, we have decided to sign him to a multi-year contract&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;He always stood out for his feel for the game and efficiency&#8221;, added the GM. &#8220;He impacts winning first and foremost. He&#8217;s a smart physical player who helps the team in many areas of the game. He&#8217;s a solid playmaking big man with sharp passing instincts&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ms20brazil20shot20169.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\" class=\"wp-image-519071 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ms20brazil20shot20169.jpg 980w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ms20brazil20shot20169-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ms20brazil20shot20169-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy to join the legendary club of Maccabi, and become a part of Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv&#8221;, said Marcio Santos. &#8220;I can&#8217;t wait to bring my enthusiasm and game to Tel Aviv and help the team in every aspect I can. I&#8217;m counting the minutes until I could wear the honorable yellow jersey. Let&#8217;s go Maccabi!&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">22-year-old Santos was born November 2nd, 2002 and grew up in Tr?s Cora??es, Minas Gerais, southeast Brazil. He rose through Franca, one of Brazil&rsquo;s top clubs, winning three national championships, the Basketball Champions League Americas, and the Intercontinental Cup. In Brazil, he averaged 13.8 points, 6.3 rebounds, and 47.9% from three before coming to Europe last summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ms20brazil20pass20169.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\" class=\"wp-image-519072 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ms20brazil20pass20169.jpg 980w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ms20brazil20pass20169-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ms20brazil20pass20169-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">His first stop in Europe was Ulm, where he played last season alongside Ben Saraf. In the German league, the young center averaged just over 17 minutes a game, posting 8.2 points and 3.9 rebounds. In the playoffs, those numbers rose to 8.7 points and 3 rebounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Santos also played 17 EuroCup games for Ulm, averaging a solid 7.6 points, 3.2 rebounds, and 44.1% from three in 14.5 minutes per game. He&rsquo;s also part of Brazil&rsquo;s national team roster, having played in the World Cup and AmeriCup qualifiers.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The young Brazilian joins on a three-year deal: &#8220;Very happy to join this legendary club&#8221;. Coldebella: &#8220;A smart, physical player.&#8221; Katash: &#8220;He plays with passion and energy that fit us&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":519070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-511062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519078,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511062\/revisions\/519078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511062"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=511062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}