![]() Marcos with Bàsquet Girona in 2024 | |||||||||||||||
No. 2–FC Barcelona | |||||||||||||||
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Position | Point guard | ||||||||||||||
League | Liga ACB EuroLeague | ||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||
Born | Rosario, Argentina | April 10, 2000||||||||||||||
Nationality | Argentine / Italian | ||||||||||||||
Listed height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||||||||||||||
Career information | |||||||||||||||
NBA draft | 2022: undrafted | ||||||||||||||
Playing career | 2015–present | ||||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||||
2015–2019 | Peñarol de Mar del Plata | ||||||||||||||
2019–2024 | FC Barcelona | ||||||||||||||
2019–2021 | →FC Barcelona B | ||||||||||||||
2021–2023 | →Força Lleida | ||||||||||||||
2023–2024 | →Bàsquet Girona | ||||||||||||||
2024–2025 | Bàsquet Girona | ||||||||||||||
2025–present | FC Barcelona | ||||||||||||||
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Juan Ignacio 'Juani' Marcos (born July 6, 2000) is an Argentine professional basketball player who plays for FC Barcelona of the Liga ACB and EuroLeague. Standing at 6 ft 3 inches (1.90 m), Marcos plays as a point guard. Marcos also has Italian citizenship. [1]
Born in Rosario, Argentina, Marcos played in the youth ranks of Club El Coatí, a basketball club based in Eldorado, Misiones. Marcos would go on to join Club Atlético Peñarol in Mar del Plata and make his debut in the Liga Nacional de Básquet at age 15. [2] [3]
Marcos would remain a Peñarol player until 2019, averaging 6.8 points per game and 2 assists in 33 games in the 2018–19 Liga Nacional de Básquet. [4]
In July 2019, Marcos signed with FC Barcelona. He would play the two following seasons with the reserve team, FC Barcelona B, in the LEB Plata. Averaging 9 points per game and 3.1 assists in 54 total games, Marcos became a key player in the reserve team's roster. [5] [6]
In September 2021, Marcos joined Força Lleida in the LEB Oro on loan from Barcelona. [7] Becoming an important player in Lleida's rotation in his first season, the club reached an agreement with Barcelona to extend Marcos' loan for a second season. [8]
Marcos would spend a further season on loan after joining Bàsquet Girona of the Liga ACB in the summer of 2023. [9] He made his Liga ACB debut in an away win against Valencia Basket in September 2023. [10] At the end of the 2023-24 season FC Barcelona decided not to extend Marcos' contract, bringing an end to his 5 years with the Catalan club. [6]
In July 2024, Marcos signed with Bàsquet Girona, returning after spending the previous season on loan. [11]
On June 30, 2025, FC Barcelona announced an agreement had been reached for the return of Marcos. The Argentine signed a two season deal after Barcelona triggered the buyout clause on his contract with Girona. [1]
Marcos has represented Argentina's youth ranks in several international tournaments, such as the 2019 U19 World Cup with the U19 Team. [2]
He made his debut for the senior Argentine national team against Chile in February 2024, during the 2025 FIBA AmeriCup qualification. [3]
GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
FG% | Field-goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field-goal percentage | FT% | Free-throw percentage |
RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | PIR | Performance index rating |
Bold | Career high |
Year | Team | League | GP | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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2023–24 | ![]() | ACB | 22 | 22.5 | .420 | .357 | .841 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 1.3 | .2 | 9.7 |
2024–25 | ![]() | ACB | 28 | 21.1 | .400 | .351 | .837 | 1.9 | 4.3 | .9 | .1 | 8.3 |