Marcelo Casas

Juan Marcelo Casas Chamorro (born 14 April 1992) commonly referred to as Marcelo Casas^[1] is a Paraguayan-Spanish^[2] footballer who currently plays for Guaraní F.B.C. in the Paraguayan Division Intermedia.

In 2009, Casas joined the Panathinaikos Academy aged 17, playing for the club’s under-21 Golden Team in the Superleague Greece Youth Leagues, and was promoted to the Panathinaikos B team and first-team squad from the 2010–11 season under the works of Jesualdo Ferreira,^[3] until departing the club at the termination of the 2014-15 season.^[4]

In 2009, Casas was signed by Panathinaikos when he was still a minor and joined the club’s under-21’s Academy team.^[5] He signed with a Spanish passport,^[2] and was teammates with Greece under-21 player Giorgos Machlelis and Australia under-20 player Robert Stambolziev. On 18 August 2009, Casas played in a 1-1 home draw against PAO Rouf at the Apostolos Nikolaidis stadium in a 2009–10 pre-season friendly for Panathinaikos under-21’s Academy squad, sharing a strong team with Charalampos Mavrias, Nikos Kousidis, Stefanos Kapino, Nikos Marinakis , Anastasios Lagos, Konstantinos Triantafyllopoulos, Georgios Chionidis, Spyros Fourlanos and Alexandros Tabakis and coached by Juan Ramón Rocha.^[6]

On 10 December 2010, it was reported that Casas' former youth club, Primera División Paraguaya team Libertad would sue Panathinaikos for breach of trust.^[7] Casas travelled to Greece in 2009 to trial with Panathinaikos after Libertad received an invitation from Panathinaikos to trial the player for 30 days.^[7] According to Libertad, Panathinaikos asked Libertad for a one-month extension as the player was passing the trials. In that time, Panathinaikos convinced Casas to continue at the club without Libertad's permission, using the invitation as a trick, and the player signed for the club when he turned 18 years old.^[7] Libertad detailed that the club deserved expenses due to forming the player.^[7]

Under the tenure of Portuguese coach Jesualdo Ferreira during the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons, Casas worked the men’s team.^[8] He cited Ferreira as a Teacher and teammate Jean-Alain Boumsong as a role model.^[9]

Casas featured for 22 de Septiembre during the 2015 Primera División B Nacional.^[10][11] In October 2015, he featured during the promotion play-offs against Liga Ovetense as the latter eventually gained promotion to the 2016 División Intermedia.^[12] Subsequently, 22 de Septiembre were then forced to play a promotion play off against the runner-up of the Primera División B Metropolitana in order to ascend to the 2016 División Intermedia. In November 2015, Casas featured in both fixtures of the play-off against Club Fulgencio Yegros as 22 de Septiembre were defeated 4−2 on penalties after a 2−2 aggregate score.^[13][14]

Casas made his first appearance for the club in Round 1 of the 2016 División Intermedia, playing a full 90 minutes of a 3−2 away victory against Ovetense.^[1] He then played a full 90 minutes in a 4−0 thrashing against Sport Colombia the following week.^[15] He would not play again until round 7 in a 1−0 away defeat against Sportivo Iteño.^[16] On 10 July 2016, he scores for the club in a 1−1 draw vs Ovetense.^[17][18]

Casas rejoined Club 22 de Septiembre in 2017 as they were promoted to the División Intermedia having won a promotion play off, the same promotion play off that the player had played in during 2015.^[19]

In 2019, Casas played for Encarnación team Athletic FBC in Paraguay's third-tier.^[20]

In June 2021, Casas played in a 3–0 away victory against Sportivo Ameliano.^[21] In August 2021, he played in a 1–0 victory against General Díaz.^[22] In September 2021, he scored in the first goal in 30th minute of a 2–1 home victory against Sportivo Iteño.^[23][24] In September 2021, he played in a 2–0 away defeat against General Caballero JLM.^[25]

• 22 de Septiembre
  • Primera División B Nacional: Runners-up: 1
    • 2015

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