Dudu Cearense

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Dudu Cearense

Dudu with CSKA Moscow in February 2007
Personal information
Full name	Alessandro Silva de Sousa
Date of birth	(1983-04-15) 15 April 1983 (age 38)
Place of birth	Fortaleza, Brazil
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Central midfielder
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	7	(2)
2016–2018	Botafogo	29	(1)
National team‡
2002–2003	Brazil U-20	16	(7)
2003–2004	Brazil U-23	9	(3)
2004–2007	Brazil	12	(0)
Honours Representing  Brazil Copa América Winner 2004 Peru FIFA U-20 World Cup Winner 2003 UAE
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11 December 2016 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 4 June 2009

Alexandro Silva de Sousa (born 15 April 1983), known as Dudu Cearense or simply Dudu, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who last played for Botafogo.

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

Career[]

Dudu was born in Fortaleza, Ceará.

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 three-year contract on 6 August 2008.^[1] In May 2009, he signed a new contract with the Greek club which would last until June 2013 with a buyout 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 three-year contract with the Brazilian team. In 2012 he moved to Goiás until the end of his contract in January 2014. Goiás wanted to extend with the player but he wanted to return to Europe. On 27 January 2014, he agreed a 1.5-year contract with Greek Club OFI.

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). Three weeks later, it was reported Dudu was injured and in poor shape. He was released on 22 September. He never played for Netanya in the league and only made two appearances in the Toto Cup.^[2][3] 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.^[4]

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

Career statistics[]

Club[]

As of match played 22 February 2018^[5][6]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National Cup		League Cup		Continental		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Vitória	2001	Série A	0	0			–		–				0	0
	2002		18	0			–		–				18	0
	2003		31	6			–		–				31	6
	Total		49	6			-	-	-	-			49	6
Kashiwa Reysol	2004	J1 League	11	2	0	0	3	0	–		–		14	2
Stade Rennais	2004–05	Ligue 1	15	1					–		–		15	1
CSKA Moscow[7]	2005	Russian Premier League	21	3	1	0	-		3	0	1	0	26	3
	2006		28	2	7	2	-		8	1	1	0	44	5
	2007		15	1	2	0	-		7	0	1	0	25	1
	2008		10	1	2	0	-		0	0	-		12	1
	Total		74	7	12	2	-	-	18	1	3	0	107	10
Olympiacos	2008–09	Superleague Greece	26	3			-		7	1	-		33	4
	2009–10		20	4			-		10	1	-		30	5
	2010–11		19	0			-		4	3	-		23	3
	Total		65	7			-	-	21	5	-	-	86	12
Atlético Mineiro	2011	Série A	13	3			–		–				13	3
	2012		4	0			–		–				4	0
	Total		17	3			-	-	-	-			17	3
Goiás	2012	Série B	4	1			–		–				4	1
	2013	Série A	19	1	7	0	–		–		16	5	42	6
	Total		23	2	7	0	-	-	-	-	16	5	46	7
OFI Crete	2014–15	Superleague Greece	11	3	3	1	–		–		–		14	4
Maccabi Netanya	2014–15	Israeli Premier League	0	0	0	0	2	0	–		–		2	0
Fortaleza	2015	Série C	6	2	2	0	–		–		7	0	15	2
	2016		1	0	3	0	–		–		16	2	20	2
	Total		7	2	5	0	-	-	-	-	23	2	35	4
Botafogo	2016	Série A	16	1	1	0	–		–		0	0	16	1
	2017		13	0	1	0	–		4	0	7	1	24	1
	2018		0	0	0	0	–		–		4	0	4	0
	Total		29	1	2	0	-	-	4	0	11	1	46	2
Career total			301	34	29	3	2	0	43	6	53	8	428	51

International[]

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Brazil	2004	4	0
	2005	0	0
	2006	5	0
	2007	2	0
	Total	11	0

Honours[]

Club[]

Vitória

• Supercampeonato Baiano Winner: 2002
• Campeonato Baiano Winner: 2002, 2003
• Copa do Nordeste Winner: 2003

CSKA Moscow

• Russian Premier League Winner: 2005, 2006
• Russian Super Cup Winner: 2006, 2007
• Russian Cup Winner: 2005/2006, 2008

Olympiacos

• Greek Super League Winner:2009, 2011
• Greek Cup Winner: 2009

Atlético Mineiro

• Campeonato Mineiro: 2012

Goiás

• Campeonato Brasileiro Série B: 2012
• Goiás State League: 2013

Fortaleza

• Campeonato Cearense: 2016

Botafogo

• Campeonato Carioca: 2018

International[]

Brazil

• Copa América Winner: 2004

Brazil U-20

• FIFA World Youth Championship Winner: 2003

Individual[]

• FIFA World Youth Championship Top scorer: 4 goals

References[]

External links[]

• Dudu Cearense at National-Football-Teams.com
• Dudu Cearense at Soccerway
• Dudu Cearense at J.League (in Japanese)