Mert Nobre

Mert Nobre — Biography

Known by his birth name Márcio Ferreira Nobre and in Turkey as Mert Nobre, the former Brazilian footballer and manager was born on 6 November 1980 in Jateí, in Brazil's Mato Grosso do Sul state. The forward began his professional career at Paraná Clube in 1999, spent a season at Kashiwa Reysol in Japan in 2002, then moved to Cruzeiro in 2003, winning the Brazilian championship with the club that same year.

He joined Fenerbahçe in 2004, winning back-to-back Süper Lig titles and finishing among the league's top scorers, before transferring to Beşiktaş in 2006, where he spent five seasons and collected further honours including the 2008–09 league title. That same year he acquired Turkish citizenship and adopted the name Mert. After leaving Beşiktaş he turned out for Mersin İdmanyurdu, Kayserispor, Switzerland's FC Wil and BB Erzurumspor in turn, before ending his playing career at Gençlerbirliği in 2019; he was never capped for the Brazil national team.

He took his first coaching post at Gençlerbirliği in August 2020. In 2026 he returned to wide public attention after taking part in and winning Acun Ilıcalı's reality competition Survivor.