page_title: Thiago Martins
section_title: Major League Soccer
hierarchical_section_title: Thiago Martins / Professional career / Major League Soccer
caption_attribution_description: Photo of Thiago Martins taken by me at D.C. United meet-the-team day.
context_page_description: Thiago Martins is a retired Brazilian footballer who played professionally in the United States and Norway.
context_section_description: With United, he played in five games before the end of the season. While training following the 2003 season, Martins tore his left ACL. After an extensive rehabilitation process which saw him close to returning to the team, he tore the ACL again. As a result, Martins missed all of United's 2004 season. After the season, Martins was selected 17th overall by Club Deportivo Chivas USA in the 2004 MLS Expansion Draft. He scored the first goal in club history in its second match, a 3–3 draw with San Jose Earthquakes. Martins went on to score two more goals during the season.
  Martins was traded to MetroStars, with a partial allocation, for Ante Razov in January 2006. He played just one game for the re-branded New York Red Bulls before again being traded, this time to Colorado Rapids, for Peguero Jean Philippe. At the conclusion of the season, he signed with FK Bodø/Glimt of the Adeccoligaen in Norway.
caption: Martins with DC United in 2003
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