| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Marco Antonio Bustos | ||
| Date of birth | (1996-04-22) April 22, 1996 (age 28) | ||
| Place of birth | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | ||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Attacking midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Värnamo | ||
| Number | 19 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Garden City CC | |||
| 2007–2011 | FC Northwest | ||
| 2011–2014 | Vancouver Whitecaps FC | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2014 | Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-23 | 7 | (4) |
| 2015–2018 | Vancouver Whitecaps FC | 4 | (0) |
| 2015–2017 | → Whitecaps FC 2 (loan) | 57 | (22) |
| 2018 | → Zacatepec (loan) | 5 | (0) |
| 2018–2019 | Oklahoma City Energy | 16 | (1) |
| 2019 | Valour FC | 25 | (7) |
| 2020–2022 | Pacific FC | 57 | (14) |
| 2023– | Värnamo | 18 | (3) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2013 | Canada U17 | 8 | (0) |
| 2014–2015 | Canada U20 | 6 | (2) |
| 2015–2017 | Canada | 6 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of November 15, 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of March 22, 2017 | |||
Marco Antonio Bustos (born April 22, 1996) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as an attacking midfielder for Allsvenskan club Värnamo.
He began playing soccer at age four with the Garden City CC.[1] Bustos played for FC Northwest in his native Winnipeg for four years before joining the Vancouver Whitecaps's academy in 2011. Bustos played from the U-16 level up, and completed his time at the academy with a 19-goal performance during the 2013-14 USSDA season. He also played seven games for the Vancouver U-23 PDL side, scoring four goals.[2]
Bustos made his professional debut for Vancouver in the 2014 Canadian Championship, starting a game against Toronto FC on May 7, 2014.[3] On September 15, it was announced Bustos had signed a pre-contract with Vancouver and would officially be added to the team's roster in January 2015.[4] Bustos made his MLS league debut for the Whitecaps against FC Dallas on October 14, 2015.[5]
After the 2017 season, Bustos would re-sign an 18-month contract with the Whitecaps, with club options for the 2019, 2020 and 2021 seasons. He would also be loaned to ZacatepecofAscenso MX for the duration of the 18-month contract.[6] In August 2018, Bustos and Whitecaps FC mutually agreed to terminate his MLS contract.[7]
In August 2018, Bustos joined the United Soccer League's OKC Energy FC.[8]
On May 7, 2019, Bustos signed for his hometown club, Canadian Premier League side Valour FC.[9]
On January 30, 2020, Bustos signed with Pacific FC.[10] He made his debut on August 15 against the HFX Wanderers, netting a goal in a 2–2 draw.[11] In his final match of 2020, Bustos scored twice and assisted twice in the first half to finish the season with five goals and three assists.[12] Bustos continued with Pacific for the 2021 Canadian Premier League, and on July 10 he scored two goals against York United FC, making him the Canadian Premier League's all-time leading goalscorer, with 15 goals in three years between Valour and Pacific.[13]
After the conclusion of the 2022 season, Bustos joined Major League Soccer side Toronto FC on trial.[14] In January 2023, Pacific announced Bustos would be departing the club, following the expiration of his contract.[15]
On January 14, 2023, Bustos officially joined Swedish club Värnamo on a free transfer, signing a two-year contract with the club.[16][17] He made his Allsvenskan debut on April 2, starting in a 0–1 away win against IFK Göteborg.[18] He then scored his first goal for the club on April 29, finding the net in a 3–1 league defeat to Häcken.[19][20]
Bustos has represented Canada at youth level and was a part of the Canadian team at the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup.[21] He courted controversy in July 2014 when he accepted a call-up from the Chile U-20 squad for a training camp prior to an invitational tournament in the United States.[22] This prompted a negative reaction from Canadian soccer media circles.[23] Bustos would state in an interview that he was not spurning Canada, and simply "keeping his options open."[24] He was cut from the final Chile squad, however. Bustos was subsequently left off the Canadian U-20 team that went to 2014 Milk Cup the following month, but returned to the team for a series of friendlies in November, where he scored a goal for Canada against Russia's U-21 side.[25] In January 2015 Bustos made the Canadian team for the 2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship.[26]
Bustos received his first call up to the Canadian senior team for a friendly against Ghana on October 2, 2015.[27] Bustos made his debut for the senior side on October 13 as a substitute, replacing fellow debutante Charlie Trafford.[28]
Pacific FC
Marco Bustos has a Chilean father and an Italian mother.[29][30]
| Club | Season | League | National Cup[a] | Continental[b] | Other[c] | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-23 | 2014 | USL PDL | 7 | 4 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | ||
| Vancouver Whitecaps FC | 2014 | MLS | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 2016 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Total | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | ||
| Whitecaps FC 2 (loan) | 2015 | USL | 17 | 7 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 17 | 7 | ||
| 2016 | 19 | 7 | – | – | 2 | 0 | 21 | 7 | ||||
| 2017 | 21 | 8 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 21 | 8 | ||||
| Total | 57 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 59 | 22 | ||
| Zacatepec (loan) | 2017–18 | Ascenso MX | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | – | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | |
| 2018–19 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Total | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | ||
| OKC Energy | 2018 | USL Championship | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | |
| 2019 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |||
| Total | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 1 | ||
| Valour FC | 2019 | CPL | 25 | 7 | 2 | 1 | – | 0 | 0 | 27 | 8 | |
| Pacific FC | 2020 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 10 | 5 | ||
| 2021 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 18 | 7 | |||
| 2022 | 30 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 4 | ||
| Total | 82 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 24 | ||
| Värnamo | 2023 | Allsvenskan | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3 | |
| Career total | 186 | 51 | 10 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 198 | 55 | ||
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