Shakhtar Donetsk
Maicon Pereira de Oliveira played for which team from 2012 to 2013?
Maicon Pereira de Oliveira Maicon Pereira de Oliveira ( 8 May 1988 – 8 February 2014 ) commonly known as Maicon , was a Brazilian footballer who played in the Ukrainian Premier League for most of his professional career . He performed as a striker . Club career . Volyn Lutsk . Maicon was born in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil . In 2009 , he moved to Ukrainian Premier League club Volyn Lutsk from Atlético Mogi . In his first season with the club he scored 13 goals in 18 matches in the First League ( Persha Liha ) , guiding Volyn to promotion to the Premier League after a second-place finish . He made a further 3 cup appearances , however he failed to score a goal in them . In his second season , he was unable to keep up his scoring rate from the previous season and , despite netting a hat trick in the cup , he was loaned to Steaua București for the second half of the season . He scored 5 goals in 16 appearances in his second season with the club , including just 2 goals from 15 league matches . Loan to Steaua . On 21 February 2011 , Maicon was loaned out for four months to the Romanian team Steaua București with an option for purchase at the end of the 2010–11 Liga I season . On 13 April 2011 , in his second match at Steaua , he scored his first goal and the only goal in Steauas victory against Liga I leader Oţelul Galaţi . On 16 April 2011 , coming on in the 72nd minute , he scored the equalizer goal in 80th minute and victory goal in 86th minute against Sportul Studenţesc . At the end of the season , he returned to his club in Ukraine . Return to Volyn . His second season in the Premier League proved much more successful . During the 2011–12 season , he scored 14 goals in the league and 5 in the cup and was the clubs top goalscorer . He finished the season with 19 goals from 28 matches and was top goalscorer in the Ukrainian Cup . He also tied Yevhen Seleznyov as top goalscorer in the league . Due to an impressive 2011–12 season , he attracted the interest of reigning Premier League champions Shakhtar Donetsk , joining them on a free transfer . Shakhtar Donetsk . In the summer of 2012 , Maicon joined Shakhtar Donetsk on a free transfer . He signed a three-year contract . On 4 September it was announced that Maicon would join Zorya on loan for six months before joining up with Shakhtar again during the winter break . Zorya Luhansk . Because he joined Shakhtar after the season had begun Mircea Lucescu , the Shakhtar manager , decided to loan him to Zorya for the first half of the season . But then he was registered by Ukrainian Premier League as a player , who belongs for Zorya , but not on loan . He made his debut on 15 September 2012 , coming on as a second-half substitute against club Shakhtar Donetsk . Zorya lost the match 3–0 . Death . In February 2014 , Illichivets Mariupol were conducting its winter training in Turkey where on February 6 it played the last friendly match against the Polish side Górnik Zabrze . Maicon spent the first half on the field , yet the Ukrainian team lost 1–2 . This turned out to be Maicons last game . On February 7 the team returned to Ukraine where it was given three days to rest . The next morning , on February 8 around 4 oclock in the morning while returning home on his Hyundai Elantra near the Kalinin Hospital in Donetsk on prospekt Illicha ( Illich Avenue ) , Maicon entered the ongoing traffic side of the street when maneuvering to pass a vehicle that signalled for a turn to the nearest gas station . While passing on the ongoing traffic lane , the footballers vehicle made a head-on collision with a Škoda Superb , after which it hit a pole . With multiple injuries , the driver of the Škoda ended up in hospital in a critical condition , while Maicon died on the scene . A possible cause of death was injury to the skull as he hit a stand with his head . The automobile given to him had collided at a speed of . Most likely , Maicon was returning from the night club Litsa ( ) where he was seen with Alex Teixeira , Fred , and Douglas Costa . The club confirmed the news in an official statement that morning . Shakhtar said that the Brazilian , 25 , was a wonderful person . He was a talented footballer , open and friendly guy , the club added . It is a terrible bereavement for each of us . Maicon was on loan to Ukrainian league club Illichivets Mariupol until the end of the season . He joined Shakhtar Donetsk on a free transfer in 2012 from fellow Ukrainian side Volyn Lutsk and made six appearances , scoring one goal . Shakhtar said that his contract would be paid in full to his family as he had a 7-year-old daughter and elderly parents . External links . - profile on Volyn Lutsks official site - profile on FFU site - profile on zerozero.pt