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Neither Messi nor Neymar: The scorer of the qualifying rounds costs less than 1% of what the PSG Stars charge per year

The Bolivian national team forward, Marcelo Moreno Martins, is about to become the top scorer in the Conmebol qualifiers, beating Lionel Messi and Neymar.

By Alexis Almosnino

The Bolivian national team forward, Marcelo Moreno Martins, is about to become the top scorer in the Conmebol qualifiers, beating Lionel Messi and Neymar.
The Bolivian national team forward, Marcelo Moreno Martins, is about to become the top scorer in the Conmebol qualifiers, beating Lionel Messi and Neymar.

Bolivia's path through these South American qualifiers, with a success in twelve games and the same amount of points, has been uphill, as has happened mostly, except for its only qualification for the United States in 1994. But there is a particularity in the team. 

His emblem, Marcelo Moreno Martins, heads the table of gunners of the current tournament, he is the third historical scorer of the competition behind the Uruguayan Luis Suárez and Lionel Messi, and one of his specialties is being an executioner for the national team.

The whole of the altiplano has 65 games and more than 10,000 days without winning as a visitor. It is the worst streak of any team in that condition in the history of the qualifying rounds, since it was last imposed on July 18, 1993. Moreno Martins, in force at 34, has few memories of that defeat: a month earlier he had barely turned 6 years old. What he does remember perfectly, and the statistics endorse. 

The scorers table of the South American Qualifiers has Marcelo Martins in first place, and with an advantage over his competitors. The Bolivian scored 8 goals, one of them against Argentina, and is escorted by the Brazilian Neymar, with 7, and Lionel Messi, with 6.

Neymar and Messi have the best salaries at Paris Saint Germain. These are around 35 million dollars per season. What is incredible is the market value of Marcelo Moreno Martins, which is valued at just $ 450,000. That is, both Messi and Neymar, takes a Marcelo Martins every 12 hours. Despite that, he leads them in the scorers table.

 

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