[1] Marcelo made his senior debut on 20 April 2012, starting in a 2–0 away win against Resende for the Campeonato Carioca championship.
On 23 April 2014, shortly after having his federative rights acquired by Cianorte, Marcelo was loaned to Série A club Flamengo until the end of 2015.
[4] Marcelo scored his first goal in the main category of Brazilian football on 31 August 2014, netting the first in a 2–1 away win against Vitória.
[5] Ending the season as a starter, he fell down the pecking order in the following year, after the emergence of Samir and the arrival of César Martins.
[7] On 28 November 2016, whilst at the service of Chapecoense, Marcelo was among the fatalities of the LaMia Airlines Flight 2933 accident in the Colombian village of Cerro Gordo, La Unión, Antioquia.