| Marcelo Pitaluga | |
| Full Name: | Marcelo de Araújo Pitaluga Filho |
| Birth Date: | 20 December 2002 |
| Birth Place: | Niterói, Brazil |
| Height: | 1.92 m[1] |
| Currentclub: | Liverpool |
| Clubnumber: | 45 |
| Youthyears1: | 2009–2010 |
| Youthclubs1: | Vasco da Gama |
| Youthyears2: | 2011–2020 |
| Youthclubs2: | Fluminense |
| Years1: | 2019–2020 |
| Clubs1: | Fluminense |
| Caps1: | 0 |
| Goals1: | 0 |
| Years2: | 2020– |
| Clubs2: | Liverpool |
| Caps2: | 0 |
| Goals2: | 0 |
| Years3: | 2022–2023 |
| Clubs3: | → Macclesfield (loan) |
| Caps3: | 19 |
| Goals3: | 0 |
| Years4: | 2024 |
| Clubs4: | → St Patrick's Athletic (loan) |
| Caps4: | 4 |
| Goals4: | 0 |
| Nationalteam1: | Brazil U15 |
| Nationalteam2: | Brazil U16 |
| Nationalteam3: | Brazil U17 |
| Club-Update: | 20:34, 29 June 2024 (UTC) |
| Ntupdate: | 17:23, 24 June 2024 (UTC) |
Marcelo de Araújo Pitaluga Filho (born 20 December 2002) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for club Liverpool.
Pitaluga started his career with Brazilian side Fluminense.[2] [3] [4] [5] He was an unused substitute with the first team on 4 occasions during his time with the club.[6]
In 2020, he signed for Premier League club Liverpool, for a fee in the region of £2 million.[7] [8] [9] [10] After sporadically being involved in the first team squad as an unused substitute in Premier League and EFL Cup games, Pitaluga made his first appearance at first team level on 25 July 2023, in a 4–4 draw against German side Greuther Fürth in a pre-season friendly.[11]
In July 2022, Pitaluga was sent on loan to English eighth-tier club Macclesfield.[12] [13] He made 18 league appearances for the club before an ankle injury suffered in November saw him out of action until April 2023.[14] He made a total of 26 appearances in all competitions for the club as they won the 2022–23 Northern Premier League Division One West.[15] [16]
On 5 January 2024, Pitaluga signed a new contract with Liverpool and was loaned out to League of Ireland Premier Division side St Patrick's Athletic.[17] [18] [19] His spell at the club proved difficult, with high profile errors in the 2024 President of Ireland's Cup as well as a league game away to Waterford seeing him dropped by manager Jon Daly in favour of Danny Rogers after playing the first 4 league games of the season.[20] [21] On 29 June 2024, newly appointed manager Stephen Kenny confirmed that Pitaluga's loan spell with the club had been cut short after making 7 appearances in all competitions in the club's first 29 games of the season.[22]
As well as his native Brazil, Pitaluga also holds a German passport, making him eligible to play for the Germany national team.[23] He has played for the Brazil under-15, under-16 and under-17 teams.[23] He was part of the squad for Brazil U17's 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup win.[24]
| Club | Season | League | National Cup | League Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Fluminense | 2019 | Campeonato Brasileiro Série A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Liverpool U21 | 2021–22 | — | — | — | — | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
| 2023–24 | — | — | — | — | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||||
| Total | – | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Liverpool | 2021–22 | Premier League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2022–23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 2023–24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 2024–25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Macclesfield (loan) | 2022–23[25] | NPL Division One West | 19 | 0 | 4 | 0 | – | – | 3 | 0 | 26 | 0 | |||
| St Patrick's Athletic (loan) | 2024 | LOI Premier Division | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 23 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 37 | 0 | |||
Macclesfield
2022–23
Brazil U17