{{short description|Argentine footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Marcelo Penta | image = | fullname = Marcelo Alejandro Penta | height = {{height|m=1.74}} | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1985|08|26|df=yes}} | birth_place = Las Heras, Mendoza, Argentina | currentclub = | clubnumber = | position = Midfielder | years1 = 2004–2009 | clubs1 = Newell's Old Boys | caps1 = 24 | goals1 = 1 | years2 = 2006–2007 | clubs2 = → Tiro Federal (loan) | caps2 = ? | goals2 = ? | years3 = 2007–2008 | clubs3 = → Chacarita Juniors (loan) | caps3 = ? | goals3 = ? | years4 = 2009–2012 | clubs4 = Pierikos | caps4 = 74 | goals4 = 4 | years5 = 2012–2013 |clubs5 =Ethnikos Achna |caps5 = 18 |goals5 = 2 | years6 = 2013–2016 |clubs6 = Aiginiakos |caps6 = 56 |goals6 = 5 | years7 = 2016–2017 |clubs7 = Apollon Larissa |caps7 = 22 |goals7 = 1 | years8 = 2017–2019 |clubs8 = Volos |caps8 = 32 |goals8 = 3 | years9 = 2019–2020 |clubs9 = Veria |caps9 = 19 |goals9 = 0 | years10 = 2020–2023 |clubs10 = Ypato |caps10 = ? |goals10 = ? | totalcaps = 245 | totalgoals = 16 | pcupdate = 7 January 2023 }}
'''Marcelo Alejandro Penta''' (born 26 August 1985) is a retired Argentine professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
==Career== Born in Las Heras, Mendoza, Marcelo Penta began his professional football career with Newell's Old Boys in the Argentine Primera División.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Guardian.co.uk|title=Stats Centre: Marcelo Alejandro Penta|url=http://guardian.touch-line.com/StatsCentre.asp?CTID=57&CPID=120&TEID=1403&PLID=187360&pStr=Player|accessdate=2009-10-29|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120924214438/http://guardian.touch-line.com/StatsCentre.asp?CTID=57&CPID=120&TEID=1403&PLID=187360&pStr=Player|archivedate=2012-09-24}}</ref> In order to gain regular playing time, he was loaned to Chacarita Juniors in July 2007.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Chacarita Juniors|title=MARCELO PENTA ES LA NUEVA INCORPORACION|url=http://www.chacaritajuniors.org.ar/vernoti.php?articleID=865|language=Spanish|date=12 July 2007|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101214103111/http://chacaritajuniors.org.ar/vernoti.php?articleID=865|archivedate=14 December 2010}}</ref> After returning to Newell's, he did not make any first-team appearances and moved to Greece in July 2009 to continue his professional career.
==Honours== '''Newell's Old Boys''' *Primera División: 2004 Apertura
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20120529002617/http://www.epae.org/player.fds?categ=2&team=20&player=12230&pagecode=04.02.02&langid=1 Profile at epae.org]}} *[http://www.argentinesoccer.com/jugador.cfm?id=pnta Profile at Futbol Passion]
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