Alessandro Santos
Alex | ||
Personnel | ||
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Surname | Alessandro Santos | |
birthday | 20th July 1977 | |
place of birth | Maringá , Paraná , Brazil | |
size | 178 cm | |
position |
Left full-back, left midfield |
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Juniors | ||
Years | station | |
1986-1994 | Gremio Maringá | |
1994-1997 | Meitokugijuku High School | |
Men's | ||
Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
1997-2003 | Shimizu S-Pulse | 198 (56) |
2003-2009 | Urawa Red Diamonds | 100 (11) |
2007 | → FC Red Bull Salzburg (loan) | 20 | (1)
2009-2013 | Nagoya Grampus Eight | 55 | (0)
2013-2014 | Tochigi SC | 25 | (2)
2014-2015 | FC Gifu | 17 | (2)
2015– | Maringá Futebol Club | |
National team | ||
Years | selection | Games (goals) |
2002-2006 | Japan | 82 | (7)
1 Only league games are given. As of April 5, 2015 |
Alessandro Santos ( Japanese 三 都 主 ア レ サ ン ド ロ Santosu Aresandoro ; born July 20, 1977 in Maringá , Paraná , Brazil ), player name Alex , is a Japanese football player with Brazilian roots.
Career
The native Brazilian came to Japan in 1994 at the age of 17. He played on the school team at Meitokugijuku High School from 1994 to 1997 . Before that he played eight years in the youth team of Gremio Maringa, a club from his former homeland Brazil. In 1997 he signed his first professional contract with Shimizu S-Pulse, an association based in Shimizu . During his time at S-Pulse, he was named Player of the Year in Japan in 1999 and became a Japanese citizen in 2001. There were only eight months between application and delivery. The left wing player made his first game for the Japanese national soccer team on March 21, 2002 in a friendly international match against Ukraine . He scored his first goal on May 2, 2002 against Honduras . Alex was only the second foreign-born player from Japan to wear the blue “samurai” jersey. In August 2002, the Brazilian-Japanese negotiated with the English Premier League club Charlton Athletic . The trial broke down as the left-footed man was not given a work permit for the UK . In January 2004 he moved to the Urawa Red Diamonds . Until Ivica Osim took office as coach of the Japanese national soccer team , Alex belonged to the tribe of Japan. Since the Bosnian head coach has been in the land of the rising sun , he has rarely been a part of the selection. On December 12, 2006, he was loaned by the Austrian club Red Bull Salzburg for one year with an option to buy from the Diamonds.
In early 2013 it was announced that Alex was moving to J. League Division 2 to Tochigi SC .
In February 2015 Alex returned to his native Brazil for the Maringá Futebol Clube .
National team
Alex played 82 times for Japan and scored seven goals. He took part in the World Cup finals in 2002 in his own country and in 2006 in Germany . He also won the Asian Cup with Japan in 2004 .
Oddities
A song about Alex was released in Japan by the name 1,2, Santos by Eurobeat artist Alessandra Mirka Gatti.
Awards
successes
- 2004 Asian Cup winner in the People's Republic of China with Japan
- Japanese champion with the Urawa Red Diamonds 2006
- Asian winner of the 1999 Cup Winners' Cup with Shimizu S-Pulse
- 3 × Japanese cup winners with Shimizu S-Pulse 2002 and the Urawa Red Diamonds 2005, 2006
- 2 × Japanese Supercup winner with Shimizu S-Pulse 2002 and the Urawa Red Diamonds 2006
- Austrian champion with Red Bull Salzburg 2007
- Participation in the soccer World Cup 2002 in Japan and South Korea (2 appearances)
- Participation in the soccer World Cup 2006 in Germany (3 appearances / 1 yellow card)
- Participation in the Confederations Cup 2003 in France
- Participation in the Confederations Cup 2005 in Germany
Awards
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alex in the database of transfermarkt.de
- ↑ Ex-Bull Santos changes to Tochigi ( Memento from October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), in: transfermarkt.de, from January 13, 2013
Web links
- Alessandro Santos in the J.League Data Site database (Japanese)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Santos, Alessandro |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 三 都 主 ア レ サ ン ド ロ (Japanese); Santosu Aresandoro |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese soccer player |
DATE OF BIRTH | 20th July 1977 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Maringá , Paraná State, Brazil |