Alexandre Pato

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Alexandre Pato
Alexandre Pato.jpg
Alexandre Pato (2016)
Personnel
Surname Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva
birthday 2nd September 1989
place of birth Pato Branco ,  Brazil
size 180 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
2000-2006 Internacional Porto Alegre
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2006-2007 Internacional Porto Alegre 10 0(6)
2007–2012 AC Milan 117 (51)
2013-2014 Corinthians São Paulo 49 (14)
2014-2015 →  São Paulo FC  (loan) 76 (27)
2016 →  Chelsea FC  (loan) 2 0(1)
2016-2017 Villarreal CF 14 0(2)
2017-2019 Tianjin Quanjian / Tianhai 47 (30)
2019-2020 Sao Paulo FC 31 0(8)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2007 Brazil U20 12 0(8)
2008, 2012 Brazil Olympics 10 0(2)
2008-2013 Brazil 28 (10)
1 Only league games are given.
As of August 16, 2020

Alexandre Pato , real name Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva (born September 2, 1989 in Pato Branco , Paraná ), is a Brazilian soccer player . The striker has been under contract with São Paulo FC since the end of March 2019 .

Career

In the club

Beginnings

Pato was already playing futsal in his hometown at the age of three . In 2002 the youngster went to Pôrto Alegre to the SC Internacional . He made his professional debut at the age of 17. In 2006 Pato won the FIFA Club World Cup with Internacional .

Pato at AC Milan

Pato in AC Milan jersey (2010)

In August 2007, Pato moved to the then record transfer sum for a U17 player of 22 million euros to AC Milan . In 2007, he was only allowed to play in the club's friendlies because he was under 18 at the time of the move. From January 3, 2008 he was also eligible to play in league games for AC Milan and scored a goal on his league debut on January 13, 2008 against SSC Napoli . In the years that followed, Pato was repeatedly set back from muscle injuries. In the 2009/10 and 2010/11 seasons he made 23 games and 12 goals and 25 games and 14 goals, respectively, contributing to his first championship with Milan. The following season, which he started with a remarkable goal against FC Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League 24 seconds after kick-off, he only managed eleven appearances and one goal in the league. For the 2012/13 season Pato got the jersey number 9, which had previously been worn by Filippo Inzaghi , who has since retired . After missing a large part of the games in the first half of the season due to injuries and not scoring a goal in four league games, he expressed his desire to return to Brazil.

Return to the Homeland

Finally, in January 2013, he moved to Corinthians São Paulo for 15 million euros . He signed a contract for four seasons and was number 7 on his back. After a little over 13 months at Corinthians, for which he came to 49 appearances (14 goals) in the 2013 Série A season and in the São Paulo state championship in 2013 and 2014 , he moved on loan to city rivals São Paulo FC , for whom he scored 27 goals in 76 games in the 2014 and 2015 Série A seasons and the 2015 São Paulo state championship.

Second attempt in Europe

On January 29, 2016, Pato moved to the Premier League for Chelsea on loan until the end of the 2015/16 season . There he could not prevail, however, and only came to two Premier League games under coach Guus Hiddink , in which he scored one goal.

After Chelsea FC had not signed Pato, he moved to the Spanish Primera División for Villarreal FC for the 2016/17 season , where he received a four-year contract dated June 30, 2020. There he made 14 league appearances in which he scored two goals, as well as three appearances (one goal) in the Copa del Rey , five appearances (two goals) in the UEFA Europa League and two appearances (one goal) in the Champions League qualification, in which Villarreal FC was eliminated against AS Monaco at the start of the season .

Back to Brazil via China

At the end of January 2017, Pato moved to Tianjin Quanjian in the Chinese Super League . In the 2017 season he scored 15 goals in 24 appearances; In 2018 he also scored 15 league goals, this time in 23 games. On the first two match days of the 2019 season , from which the club took on as Tianjin Tianhai , Pato was not used. On March 16, 2019, Pato announced that he had reached an agreement with the club to terminate his contract.

At the end of March 2019, Pato returned to São Paulo FC , where he received a contract until the end of 2022. In August 2020, the contract was terminated by mutual agreement.

In the national team

He helped the Brazilian U-20 team , the U-20 South American Championship 2007 in Paraguay to win, the team for which FIFA 2007 U-20 World Cup in Canada and the 2008 Olympics skilled in Beijing. In his debut in the senior national team of Brazil in the friendly against Sweden on March 26, 2008, he scored the 1-0 winner.

Despite his early first-time nomination, Pato was not called up by national coach Dunga for either the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup or the 2010 World Cup . It was only after the World Cup in South Africa, which was disappointing for the Brazilian national team, that Pato found attention again under the new coach Mano Menezes . In summer 2011, he was finally for the Copa America in Argentina nominated .

In 2012 he took part with the Olympic selection at the Olympic Games in London , where Brazil wanted to win the gold medal for the first time. In the final, however, Brazil had to admit defeat to the Mexican team 1: 2. He was used in all six games and scored one goal in the game against Belarus . It was not taken into account for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, nor for the one in 2018.

titles and achievements

societies

SC Internacional

AC Milan

Corinthians São Paulo

National team

Personal awards

Web links

Commons : Alexandre Pato  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monaco pays 25 million for Italian teenagers
  2. ↑ Official confirmation on acmilan.com
  3. ↑ Official confirmation ( memento of January 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on corinthians.com.br
  4. ↑ Career data on saopaulofc.in ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  5. ↑ Chelsea FC: Pato arrives on loan , January 29, 2016, accessed January 29, 2016.
  6. ↑ See the official confirmation from Villarreal CF of July 27, 2016, accessed on July 27, 2016.
  7. ↑ Fix: Alexandre Pato is moving to China , sportal.de, January 31, 2017, accessed on January 31, 2017.
  8. ↑ See this post by Pato on Instagram , accessed on March 18, 2019.
  9. ↑ Bate no peito, Pato: o São Paulo é sua casa! , saopaulofc.net, March 27, 2019, accessed on March 28, 2019.
  10. ↑ End of São Paulo 2020 , report on globo.com from August 19, 2020, page in portug., Accessed on August 27, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Pato, Alexandre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rodrigues da Silva, Alexandre (real name); Pato (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Pato Branco , Paraná , Brazil