Alessandro Santos
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alessandro Santos | ||
| Date of birth | July 20, 1977 | ||
| Place of birth | Maringá, Paraná, Brazil | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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PSTC | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1997–2003 | Shimizu S-Pulse | 198 | (56) |
| 2004–2009 | Urawa Reds | 100 | (11) |
| 2007 | →Red Bull Salzburg (loan) | 20 | (1) |
| 2009–2012 | Nagoya Grampus | 55 | (0) |
| 2013 | 25 | (2) | |
| 2014 | FC Gifu | 18 | (2) |
| 2015 | Maringá | ||
| 2015 | Grêmio Maringá | ||
| 2016– | PSTC | ||
| Total | 416 | (72) | |
| National team | |||
| 2002–2006 | Japan | 82 | (7) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of December 31, 2015. |
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Alessandro Santos (三都主 アレサンドロ Santosu Aresandoro?, born July 20, 1977), formerly Alessandro dos Santos and often known as Alex, is a Japanese football player who is born in Brazil. He played for Japan national team.
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 J1 League team Shimizu S-Pulse in 1997. In 1999, he received the J.League Player of the Year.
In 2001, he obtained Japanese citizenship. He made his first appearance for Japan national team on March 21, 2002 against Ukraine, 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. In January 2004, he left Shimizu to join the Urawa Red Diamonds.
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