In the last hours of 2020 there was a tragic event in Brazil that could involve a soccer player from Botafogo who ended his contract with the team on December 31. The player Márcio Almeida de Oliveira, better known as Marcinho, is the one pointed out by the Rio de Janeiro police as suspected of having run over a couple in Recreation of the Bandeirantes, a neighborhood in the western part of the city.
According to the newspaper Globe Sports, the accident would have occurred last Wednesday 30. At 17 thousand meters of Sernambetiba Avenue, a model car Mino Cooper he attacked María Cristina José Soares and Alexandre Silva de Lima. The man was killed instantly and the woman seriously injured. For its part, the driver left the scene without helping the affected peopleWitnesses of the accident told the local police.
Other information reported by the Brazilian press confirmed that The high-end vehicle is registered in the name of a company that has as one of its partners Sergio Lemos de Oliveira, father and representative of the 24-year-old footballer. According to police officer Allan Luxardo, from the Recreation unit, the car was found abandoned on the street Street Hermes de Lima, about 600 meters from the accident site.
After that, the insurance company withdrew the car and drove it to the house of the player’s father until it was transferred to the Recreation Police. For this reason, the authorities believe that Marcinho could be the one involved. Once the car reached the sectional, it underwent a new, more complete investigation that included a search of the interior of the vehicle.
In the first hours of 2021, local media indicated that The investigators wait for the footballer to appear to testify next Monday, January 4. The lawyer has already contacted the police to coordinate the visit of his client, while the man who died in the accident was already buried this Friday in the cemetery Garden of Saudade, in Rio.
Born on May 16, 1996, Marcinho spent his entire youth career in the minor divisions of Botafogo. Until 2016 he played as a midfielder until he became a right back. At the beginning of that year he was promoted to the first team and had his official debut in February in the victory of the Rio de Janeiro team against Portuguesa. In 2018 he was champion of the Carioca Championship with the Cooker and, a year later, he received the call from Tite to play for the Brazilian team: he was called up in September for a friendly that the last Copa América winner played against Nigeria.
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In the last hours of the year that has just ended, and after the confirmation that he will not continue at the club where he played all his life, Marcinho is the main accused of a serious accident.
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