#11 Marlon Santos
Position: Forward
Height: 5’ 8”
Weight: 145
DOB: 4/29/1995
Age: 26
Hometown: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Previous Club: FC Tulsa (USL Championship)
Santos signed with Legion FC on January 3, 2022 and most recently played for FC Tulsa for two and a half seasons, scoring seventeen goals and adding eight assists in 56 games. The attacker was named Tulsa’s ‘Offensive Player of the Year’ this past season after finishing 2021 with nine goals and four assists and helping lead the team to the playoffs.
“I am very happy to begin this new season with the Birmingham Legion FC family,” said Santos. “I hope I can do my best so we can be the champions. I am very happy and looking forward to this new season.”
A native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Santos got his professional career started with Brazilian club Nova Iguacu in Rio and went on to play for the likes of Bangu, Botafogo, and Madureira before moving to the United States. While he mostly was deployed as a winger with Tulsa, he has proven to be an effective attacking midfielder as well in his time in the USL Championship.
