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In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Silva and the second or paternal family name is de Sousa.
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Dudu Cearense
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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 41)
Place of birth Fortaleza, Brazil
Height 1.86 m
Playing position 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.
† Appearances (Goals).

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

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 Brazil national team.

Career

Dudu was born in Fortaleza, Ceará.

In February 2005, after spending half a season playing for Rennes in France, Dudu transferred to CSKA Moscow, where he joined and played with fellow Brazilians Daniel Carvalho, Vagner Love, and later Jô.

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. 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. 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.

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

Career statistics

Club

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 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 2013–14 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

Fortaleza

  • Campeonato Cearense: 2016

Botafogo

  • Campeonato Carioca: 2018

International

Brazil

Brazil U-20

  • FIFA World Youth Championship Winner: 2003

Individual

  • FIFA World Youth Championship Golden Shoe: 2003
  • FIFA World Youth Championship Silver Ball: 2003

See also

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