Dudu Cearense

Dudu Cearense
Personal information
Full name Alessandro Silva de Sousa
Date of birth (1983-04-15) 15 April 1983
Place of birth Fortaleza, Brazil
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Central Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Botafogo
Youth career
1998 Ceará
1998–2000 Vitória
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000–2003 Vitória 49 (6)
2004 Kashiwa Reysol 11 (2)
2004–2005 Rennes 15 (1)
2005–2008 CSKA Moscow 74 (8)
2008–2011 Olympiacos 64 (7)
2011–2012 Atlético Mineiro 17 (3)
2012–2013 Goiás 23 (2)
2014 OFI Crete 11 (3)
2014 Maccabi Netanya 0 (0)
2015–2016 Fortaleza 4 (0)
2016– Botafogo 15 (1)
National team‡
2002–2003 Brazil U-20 16 (7)
2003–2004 Brazil U-23 9 (3)
2004–2007 Brazil 12 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 10:36, 16 August 2015 (UTC).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 4 June 2009

Alexandro Silva de Sousa (born 15 April 1983 in Fortaleza, Ceará), known as Dudu Cearense or simply Dudu, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Botafogo.

He is known for his passing, aerial ability and tackling. He is a central midfielder who plays in the holding midfield role or as an box-to-box midfielder. Despite often being used in a defensive position he is mainly an attacking player. He has been capped for the Brazilian national team.

Career

In 2007, Dudu expressed his wish to leave CSKA Moscow. Olympiacos tried to sign him, but failed. In 2008, Olympiacos offered the Russian club €6 million. The offer was accepted and the player signed a 3-year contract deal on 6 August 2008. In May 2009, he signed a new contract with the Greek club which would last until June 2013 with a buy out clause of €8.5 million. On 7 April 2011, Olympiacos agreed to sell Dudu Cearense to Atlético Mineiro for a fee of €1,1 million. Dudu signed a 3-year contract with the Brazilian team. On 2012 he moved to Goiás until the end uf his contract on January 2014. Goiás wanted to extend with the player but he wanted to return to Europe. On 27 January 2014, he agreed with the Greek Club OFI for 1,5-year contract.

On 5 June 2014, he agreed for a one-year contract worth $245,000 with Maccabi Netanya of the Israel Premier League (biggest contract in the history of the club). 3 weeks later it was reported Dudu is injured and was in poor shape. He was released on 22 September. He never played for Netanya in the league and only made two appreances in the Toto Cup.[1][2] He is considered the biggest flop in the club's history, mainly for the fact he never even played once in the league and the club had to pay $50,000 compensation after his release.[3]

On 10 January 2015, he moved back to Brazil and agreed to a contract with Fortaleza.

Club statistics

[4]

Club performance League
Season Club League Apps Goals
Brazil League
2001VitóriaSérie A00
2002180
2003316
Japan League
2004Kashiwa ReysolJ1 League112
France League
2004/05Stade RennaisLigue 1151
Russia League
2005CSKA MoscowPremier League213
2006282
2007151
2008102
Greece League
2008/09OlympiacosSuper League263
2009/10204
2010/11180
Brazil League
2011Atlético MineiroSérie A133
2012Atlético MineiroSérie A40
2012GoiásSérie B41
2013GoiásSérie A191
Greece League
2013/14OFISuper League113
Israel League
2014/15Maccabi NetanyaLigat Ha'Al00
Country Brazil 8710
Japan 112
France 151
Russia 748
Greece 7510
Israel 00
Total 26231

National team statistics

Brazil national team
YearAppsGoals
200440
200500
200650
200720
Total110

Honours and awards

Club

Vitória
CSKA Moscow
Olympiacos
Atlético Mineiro
Goiás
Fortaleza

National

Brazil
Brazil U-20

Individual

Performances in major international tournaments

Last update: 28 November 2006

TeamCompetitionCategoryAppsGoalsTeam Record
 Brazil2003 FIFA Confederations CupSenior00Round 1
 Brazil2003 FIFA World Youth ChampionshipU-2074Champion
 BrazilCopa América 2004Senior10Champion

References

  1. ↑ http://eng.football.org.il/Leagues/Pages/LeagueGameDetails.aspx?GAME_ID=386298
  2. ↑ http://sports.walla.co.il/item/2775045
  3. ↑ http://www.sport5.co.il/articles.aspx?FolderID=64&docID=176201&lang=HE
  4. ↑ Dudu Cearense at National-Football-Teams.com
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