Brazilian footballer (born 1967)
Alexandre Tadeu Gallo (born 29 May 1967), known as Alexandre Gallo or just Gallo , is a Brazilian football coach and former player who played as a defensive midfielder .
Gallo started his career as a player in Botafogo-SP (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.[2]
Coaching career [ edit ] 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 Darío Pereyra in Grêmio in 2003 and with Wanderlei 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 Vanderlei 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 Vanderlei Luxemburgo was assigned as Real Madrid 's coach in the second half of the 2004/2005 season, Gallo was invited to take 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 .
Gallo coached the big Brazilian club Internacional in 20 games and conquered the Recopa Sudamericana (SouthAmerican Re-Cup 2007) during Brazilian Championship , when he moved to Figueirense . On 5 September 2009 Esporte Clube Santo André , officials dismissed him after seven games with no wins.
Honours [ edit ] As a player [ edit ] São Paulo Atlético Mineiro Corinthians As a manager [ edit ] Sport Internacional Figueirense São Caetano Brazil U20 Brazil Olympic Team References [ edit ] External links [ edit ]
Alexandre Gallo – managerial positions