Alex (footballer, born 1977)

Alex (footballer, born 1977) is, to me, one of football's quietly perfect number tens. A Curitiba-born playmaker who became Fenerbahçe's long-serving captain and the highest-scoring foreign player in Süper Lig history, he embodies the kind of cerebral creativity I love in attacking midfielders. At 175 centimeters he was never going to overpower anyone, so he ruled through vision, touch, and timing instead. What I find admirable is how fully he committed to a club far from home and became a genuine icon there. Now coaching, he's the type who should be able to pass on that rare, unhurried intelligence to a new generation of players.

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Name (English)

Alex (footballer, born 1977)

Name (Japanese)

アレクサンドロ・デ・ソウザ

Reading

あれくさんどろ・で・そうざ

Born

September 14, 1977 (age 49)

Origin

Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Height

175 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Snake

• Official sitehttp://www.alex10.com.br/#home
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/alexcfc10/
• Xhttps://x.com/Alex10
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20(footballer%2C%20born%201977)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BD%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B6
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q507815

Tags

• Paraná
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

September 28, 2026

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