Hugo Alcântara

Hugo Alcântara reads to me like a quietly admirable journeyman. A towering Brazilian centre-back from Cuiabá, he built the bulk of his career not at home but across Portugal, logging 138 Primeira Liga games for Setúbal, Académica, Belenenses and Leiria, with stops in Poland and Romania too. I am drawn to defenders who survive on grit rather than glamour. What moves me most is the full circle: after years abroad, he returned to manage Dom Bosco in his home state. There is something honest about a man who spent his playing days holding the line and now spends his coaching days passing it on.

Name (English)

Hugo Alcântara

Name (Japanese)

ウーゴ・ダ・シウヴァ・アウカンタラ

Reading

うーご・だ・しうゔぁ・あうかんたら

Born

July 28, 1979 (age 47)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Goat

Origin

Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil

Height

190 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A6%E3%82%AB%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%83%A9

Tags

• Mato Grosso
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.