Alexandre Gallo

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Alexandre Tadeu Gallo
Personal information
Date of birth	May, 29 - 1967 (41 years)
Place of birth	Ribeirão Preto (SP), Brasil
Playing position	Head-Coach
Club information
Current club	Atletico MG
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1986-1991 1991 1992-1996 1996 1997 1997-1998 1999 1999-2000 2001	Botafogo-SP Vitória Santos Portuguesa Guarani São Paulo Botafogo FR Atlético Mineiro Corinthians	{{{caps(goals)}}}
Teams managed
2004 2005 2005 2006 2007 2007 2007-presente	Villa Nova Portuguesa Santos FC Tokyo Sport Internacional Figueirense Atletico MG
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of April 4, 2008. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of June 4, 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Alexandre Tadeu Gallo, best known as Gallo (born in Ribeirão Preto, May 29, 1967) is one of the new gifted Brazilian young coaches of the new generation. He used to be a former football (soccer) player as a defensive midfielder. Gallo is presently the manager of Figueirense, Brazilian soccer first division.

He started his career as a player in Botafogo (city of Ribeirão Preto, state of São Paulo), in 1986. He played for several clubs like Vitória, Santos, São Paulo, Botafogo and Atlético Mineiro, and ended his career playing for Corinthians, in 2001.

He got many championships like Campeonato Paulista (São Paulo State League) in 1998 with São Paulo club and Campeonato Mineiro (Minas Gerais State League) in 1999 and 2000 with Atlético Mineiro.

After his retirement as a player, he became assistant-coach, working with coach Carlos Alberto Parreira in Corinthians, in 2002. Also, he worked as assistant-coach with Dario Pereyra in Grêmio in 2003 and with Wanderley Luxemburgo in Santos in 2004.

In 2004 he started his career as head-coach with the club Villa Nova. Still in 2004 he was invited by the famous Brazilian coach Wanderley Luxemburgo to work with him as assistant-coach in Santos club; winning together the title of Brazilian Championship.

At the beginning of 2005, he was invited to coach Portuguesa club during São Paulo State League. Due to an excellent work with Portuguesa de Desportos, soon after coach Wanderley Luxemburgo was assigned as Real Madrid's coach in the second half of the 2004/2005 season, Gallo was invited to took over Santos club as head-coach.

Since then, Gallo has been Head-Coach, leading many great clubs like Portuguesa de Desportos, Santos, FC Tokyo e Sport.

Also he coached the big Brazilian club Internacional, during 20 games and conquered the Recopa Sudamericana (SouthAmerican Re-Cup 2007), and during Brazilian Championship, when he moved to Figueirense.

Contents 1 Career as a player 2 Honours as a player 3 Career as a manager 4 Honours as a manager

[edit] Career as a player

• Botafogo (SP): 1986 - 1991.
• Vitória: 1991.
• Santos: 1992 - 1996.
• Portuguesa: 1996.
• Guarani: 1997.
• São Paulo: 1997 - 1998.
• Botafogo (RJ): 1999
• Atlético (MG): 1999 - 2000.
• Corinthians: 2001.

[edit] Honours as a player

• Campeonato Paulista (São Paulo State League): two time (1998 and 2001)
• Campeonato Mineiro: (Minas Gerais State League) two times (1999 and 2000)

[edit] Career as a manager

• Villa Nova(MG): 2005.
• Portuguesa: 2005.
• Santos: 2005.
• FC Tokyo: 2005 - 2006
• Sport: 2007.
• Internacional: 2007
• Figueirense: 2007 - Actual.

[edit] Honours as a manager

• Campeonato Pernambucano(Pernambuco State League): (2007)
• Recopa Sudamericana (SouthAmerican Re-Cup): (2007)

v • d • e FC Tokyo – Managers Okuma (1999–01) • Hara (2002–05) • Gallo (2006) • Kuramata (2006) • Hara (2007) • Jofuku (2008–)