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José Maria Marin (São Paulo, March 6, 1932) is a Brazilian politician and former football player. Son of a Spanish immigrant, he was an amateur boxer in his youth and played professional football to pay for his studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo. Marin was a right-winger and played for clubs such as EC São Bento, Marília AC, Jabaquara AC and São Paulo FC "Marin, bom de rebote"</ref?

Political career
Marin held many political positions during his life. He was originally a member of ARENA, the official party of the Brazilian military government, but later joined PTB. He won his first election in 1964 and took office as a city councilman in São Paulo[[. He was also a state [[deputy in the state of São Paulo until being chosen by influential politic Paulo Maluf to be his running mate for the state's 1978 gubernatorial elections. Maluf won, but, in 1982, left office to run for federal deputy, leaving Marin as governor.