Alessandro Rosa Vieira

Falcão won gold at the Pan American Games in 2007

Alessandro Rosa Vieira, known as Falcão, ( born June 8, 1977 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian football and futsal player. He is a successful scorer of the Brazilian national futsal team and was voted by FIFA multiply the world's best futsal player.

Life

Alessandro Rosa Vieira grew up in the Brazilian city of São Paulo, where he began as a child to play football in the street. Interestingly, however, appeared to him Futsal since it thereby had more contact with the ball. His nickname Paulo Roberto Falcão reminiscent of a. Successful in the 1970s and 1980s Brazilian soccer player

Falcao is known for its eye-catching and effective dribbling and a powerful and precise left foot. His height is 1.77 m and weighs 74 kg.

Falcao started his football career with the Corinthians in 1992. His great talent has brought him 17 years old a place in the Brazilian national futsal team one. In 150 games for the national futsal team of Brazil Falcao scored 200 goals. In 2010 he reached the mark of 279 hits, with whom he exceeded the previous Brazilian futsal top scorer Manoel Tobias a goal.

At the FIFA Futsal World Cup 2004 and 2008, Falcao was voted by FIFA with the adidas Golden Ball for the world's best futsal player. In 2004, he scored 13 goals while, at the same time which made ​​him the top scorer in 2008, he met 15 times.

Falcão tried several times unsuccessfully to gain a foothold in conventional football. After playing the first half of 2005, the São Paulo Futebol Clube, Falcão but returned to Futsal since it the coach Émerson Leão had used there only in 6 of 21 games. He then played at Malwee / Jaragua, a team of Jaragua do Sul and won the Liga Futsal ( Brazilian Futsal Championship) in 2005. In 2008, he helped the Brazilian national futsal team on winning the fourth FIFA Futsal World Cup title.

2012 moved from Santos FC Futsal Falcão to the ADC in Intelli Orlândia, São Paulo, with whom he has a one year contract to December.

Falcao is one of the highest paid Futsal players in the world. So he earned at the club Malwee / Jaragua about $ 25,000 monthly. Among his other sources of income include commercials and his company Falcao sport, about which he maintains Futsal schools and its own clothing brand sells. Falcao is married and has two sons.

Achievements

Success ( club )

  • Young Guns Club Brunswick West 1998 - 2009
  • Club World Championship: 2000
  • South American Championship: 2001 and 2004
  • Futsal League: 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012
  • Liga Nacional: 1999
  • Brazilian Club Cup: 1998, 2003 and 2004
  • São Paulo City Cup: 1995, 1998 and 2002
  • Paulista Championship: 1995, 1997, 2000 and 2001
  • Mineiro Championship: 1999
  • Catarinense Championship: 2003
  • Metropolitan Championship: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001
  • Topper São Paulo Cup: 1997 and 2001
  • Football: winning the Paulista Championship and the Copa Libertadores 2005, São Paulo Futebol Clube.

Success ( national team)

  • Futsal Mundialito: 2001
  • Nations Cup: 2001
  • RJ International Cup: 1998
  • American Cup: 1998 and 1999
  • South American Championship: 2000
  • Latin Cup: 2003
  • Tigers 5 - Singapore: 1999
  • Egypt Tournament: 2002
  • Thailand Tournament: 2003
  • Pan American Games: 2007
  • Grand Prix de Futsal: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2011
  • KL World 5 's - Malaysia: 2008
  • FIFA Futsal World Cup: 2008
2007 Pan American Games 2004 FIFA Futsal World Championship 2008 FIFA Futsal World Cup Campeonato Paulista
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