Alessandro Santos
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Alessandro dos Santos | ||
Date of birth | July 20, 1977 | ||
Place of birth | Maringá, Paraná, Brazil | ||
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Position(s) | Left winger | ||
Team information | |||
Current team
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Maringá | ||
Youth career | |||
1986–1993 | Grêmio Maringá | ||
1994–1996 | Meitokugijuku High School | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1997–2003 | Shimizu S-Pulse | 198 | (56) |
2004–2009 | Urawa Red Diamonds | 100 | (11) |
2007 | → Red Bull Salzburg (loan) | 20 | (1) |
2009–2012 | Nagoya Grampus | 55 | (0) |
2013 | Tochigi SC | 25 | (2) |
2014 | FC Gifu | 18 | (2) |
2015– | Maringá | 0 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2002–2006[1] | Japan | 82 | (7) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21 February 2015 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 4 February 2010 |
Alessandro Santos (三都主 アレサンドロ Santosu Aresandoro?), formerly Alessandro dos Santos (born 20 July 1977), and often known as Alex, is a Japanese football player who is born in Brazil.
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Career
He was born in Maringá in Paraná, and moved to Japan in 1994 at the age of sixteen. He enrolled in Meitoku Gijuku High School in Kōchi and played football for the school club. After graduating from the school, he joined the J. League Division 1 team Shimizu S-Pulse in 1997. In 1999, he received the J. League Player of the Year.[2]
In 2001, he obtained Japanese citizenship. He made his first appearance for Japan on March 21, 2002 against Ukraine,[1] and he was part of Philippe Troussier's selection for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. He was the second foreign-born person to play for Japan in the World Cup finals after Wagner Lopes, who played in the 1998 World Cup and also the fifth naturalized citizen to play for Japan after Daishiro Yoshimura, George Yonashiro, Ruy Ramos, and Lopes.
In August 2002, Alex agreed to join English Premier League club Charlton Athletic. But he was denied a work permit by the Home Office because he had not made the minimum number of national team appearances required for players from outside the European Union and returned to Shimizu for the remainder of the season.[3] In January 2004, he left Shimizu to join the Urawa Red Diamonds.
Since Zico took over as the national team manager, Alex was a constant on the left side of the Japanese lineup, as a fullback in 4-4-2 formation or midfielder in 3-5-2 formation, and was selected to Japan's 2006 World Cup squad in May 2006, providing an assist for Keiji Tamada in a group stage match against his former country Brazil.
In January 2007, Alex was loaned out to Red Bull Salzburg.[4] He went back to Urawa in January 2008. He received a serious injury in a test match and had only one appearance in this season. In July 2009, he agreed to move to Nagoya Grampus.[5] He made 55 appearances for the club, before joining J. League Division 2 side Tochigi SC for the 2013 season. He made 25 appearances there, scoring twice. In January 2014, he joined fellow J. League Division 2 team F.C. Gifu.
Career statistics
- As of 22 January 2015
Club performance | League | Cup | League Cup | Continental | Total | |||||||
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Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
Japan | League | Emperor's Cup | League Cup | Asia | Total | |||||||
1997 | Shimizu S-Pulse | J.League 1 | 27 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | 32 | 4 | |
1998 | 26 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 0 | - | 36 | 12 | |||
1999 | 30 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | 35 | 11 | |||
2000 | 30 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 0 | - | 40 | 8 | |||
2001 | 30 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 37 | 14 | |||
2002 | 29 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 36 | 13 | ||
2003 | 26 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 37 | 8 | ||
2004 | Urawa Red Diamonds | J.League 1 | 27 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | - | 30 | 3 | |
2005 | 32 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | 42 | 4 | |||
2006 | 34 | 5 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 35 | 5 | ||||
Austria | League | Austrian Cup | League Cup | Europe | Total | |||||||
2006-07 | Red Bull Salzburg | Bundesliga | 9 | 0 | - | - | - | 9 | 0 | |||
2007-08 | 11 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 0 | 12 | 1 | ||||
Japan | League | Emperor's Cup | League Cup | Asia | Total | |||||||
2008 | Urawa Red Diamonds | J.League 1 | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | |||
2009 | 6 | 0 | - | 4 | 0 | - | 10 | 0 | ||||
Nagoya Grampus | 14 | 0 | 6 | 1 | - | 4 | 0 | 24 | 1 | |||
2010 | 25 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | - | 29 | 1 | |||
2011 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 0 | ||
2012 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | ||
2013 | Tochigi | J.League 2 | 25 | 2 | 2 | 0 | - | - | 27 | 2 | ||
2014 | FC Gifu | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 18 | 2 | |||
Total | Japan | 396 | 71 | 51 | 10 | 36 | 4 | 13 | 3 | 496 | 88 | |
Austria | 20 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 0 | 21 | 1 | ||||
Career total | 416 | 72 | 51 | 10 | 36 | 4 | 14 | 3 | 517 | 89 |
Honors
Individual Honors
- J. League MVP: 1999
- J. League Best Eleven: 1999
Team Honors
- AFC Asian Cup: 2004
- J. League Division 1: 2006, 2010
- Asian Cup Winners Cup: 1999
- Emperor's Cup: 2001, 2005, 2006
- Japanese Super Cup: 2002, 2006
- Austrian Bundesliga: 2007
- Austrian Bundesliga Runner-up: 2008
National Career Stats
Japan national team | ||
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Year | Apps | Goals |
2002 | 9 | 1 |
2003 | 15 | 1 |
2004 | 22 | 2 |
2005 | 17 | 1 |
2006 | 19 | 2 |
Total | 82 | 7 |
Appearances in Major Competitions
Year | Competition | Category | Appearances | Goals | Team Record | |
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Start | Sub | |||||
2002 | 2002 FIFA World Cup | Senior | 1 | 1 | 0 | Round of 16 |
2003 | 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup | Senior | 3 | 0 | 0 | Round 1 |
2004 | 2004 AFC Asian Cup | Senior | 6 | 0 | 0 | Champion |
2005 | 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup | Senior | 3 | 0 | 0 | Round 1 |
2004–2005 | 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification | Senior | 9 | 1 | 0 | Qualified |
2006 | 2006 FIFA World Cup | Senior | 3 | 0 | 0 | Round 1 |
2006 | 2007 AFC Asian Cup qualification | Senior | 6 | 0 | 0 | Qualified |
Goals for national team
# | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | May 2, 2002 | Kobe, Japan | Honduras | 3-3 | Drew | Friendly |
2. | December 7, 2003 | Saitama, Japan | Hong Kong | 1-0 | Won | East Asian Football Championship 2003 |
3. | February 12, 2004 | Tokyo, Japan | Iraq | 2-0 | Won | Friendly |
4. | May 30, 2004 | Manchester, England | Iceland | 3-2 | Won | Friendly |
5. | January 29, 2005 | Yokohama, Japan | Kazakhstan | 4-0 | Won | Friendly |
6. | August 9, 2006 | Tokyo, Japan | Trinidad and Tobago | 2-0 | Won | Friendly |
7. | August 9, 2006 | Tokyo, Japan | Trinidad and Tobago | 2-0 | Won | Friendly |
Personal life
He is married to a Japanese woman from Shizuoka and has a son.
References
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- ↑ Charlton miss out on Alex, BBC, 28 August 2002
- ↑ Japan's Alex to join Miyamoto at Salzburg, December 21, 2006
- ↑ 名古屋が三都主獲り、大型補強第3弾, Nikkan sport, July 26, 2009
- ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/asantos-intlg.html
External links
- Alessandro Santos at National-Football-Teams.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- No divided loyalties for Alex, FIFAworldcup.com, June 22, 2005
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- Living people
- 2002 FIFA World Cup players
- 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup players
- 2004 AFC Asian Cup players
- 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup players
- 2006 FIFA World Cup players
- AFC Asian Cup-winning players
- Austrian Football Bundesliga players
- Brazilian emigrants to Japan
- Brazilian expatriate footballers
- Brazilian footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Austria
- Expatriate footballers in Japan
- FC Red Bull Salzburg players
- Association football midfielders
- Japan international footballers
- Japanese expatriate footballers
- Japanese expatriates in Austria
- Japanese footballers
- J.League MVPs
- J1 League players
- J2 League players
- Naturalized citizens of Japan
- People from Maringá
- Shimizu S-Pulse players
- Urawa Red Diamonds players
- Nagoya Grampus players
- Tochigi SC players
- F.C. Gifu players
- Brazilian expatriates in Austria