Marcelo Antonio Pereira Rodriguez

When CD Motagua wrote off their contract in the summer of 2024, Marcelo Pereira had already given the club a decade. He had made his debut back in November 2014 against Platense and grew into a fixture of the back line, going on to make 149 appearances and score 9 goals — including a goal in the 2018–19 Clausura final against Olimpia. Along the way he collected three Apertura titles, three Clausura titles, a Honduran Super Cup and the UNCAF Interclub Cup. A knee injury in late 2023 threatened to end that spell on a sour note, but he worked his way back into fitness through 2024 rather than being farmed out on loan.

The free transfer to CS Cartaginés that followed, on 1 July 2024, took him into Costa Rican football for the first time, and he has settled in as a regular starter for the club, keeping the number 5 shirt he wore at Motagua. He has continued to contribute goals from the back, including a penalty against San Carlos, with strikes in both the Apertura 2025 and Clausura 2025 campaigns.

Pereira has also worn the Honduras shirt at senior level, with 18 caps to his name. His clearest mark on the international stage, though, came earlier, at Under-23 level: at the 2016 Rio Olympics he scored twice in ten appearances for the age-group side, finding the net against both Algeria and Nigeria.