Alberto Valentim

Alberto
Personal information
Full name	Alberto Valentim do Carmo Neto
Date of birth	22 March 1975 (age 49)
Place of birth	Oliveira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team
1995	Guarani
1996–1999	Atlético Paranaense
1997	→ São Paulo (loan)
1998	→ Flamengo (loan)
2000–2005	Udinese
2005	→ Siena (loan)
2005–2008	Siena
2008–2009	Atlético Paranaense
Total
International career
1995	Brazil
Managerial career
2013	Atlético Paranaense (caretaker)
2014	Palmeiras (caretaker)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alberto Valentim do Carmo Neto (born 22 March 1975) is a Brazilian footballer who spent his career at Italian Serie A and Campeonato Brasileiro Série A.

Biography

Brazil

Born in Oliveira, Minas Gerais, Alberto started his professional career at Guarani of São Paulo state. He then spent 4 seasons at Atlético Paranaense, which also loaned to São Paulo and Flamengo for Copa do Brasil, Campeonato Paulista and Campeonato Carioca.

Udinese

In January 2000, he was signed by Italian Serie A club Udinese via Rentistas for US$6.65 million.^[1] He played his first Serie A match on 23 January, replaced Roberto Sosa in the 79th minutes. The match Udinese won Venezia 5–2. He played 14 league matches in the first season. But in September 2000, along with Warley, were found using a fake Portuguese passport by Polish officials while heading to Poland for the match against Polonia Warsaw.^[2] It followed by an investigation of Italian police, and found 2 more team-mate namely Jorginho Paulista and Alejandro Da Silva were using fake passport. It is because Serie A restricted each club could only had 5 non-European Union footballers and 3 in each match, a fake passport could increase their chance to win a contract with Italian club. However, that season Alberto played 27 league matches and scored 2 goals, as the quota system was abolished in the mid of season.^[3] In June 2001, Alberto, along with a dozen other including 3 of Alberto's team-mate, were banned, 10 of them including Alberto for a year and 3 youth players for 6 months.^[1]^[4] but allowed to remain at Italy. The ban was later reduced. On 14 April 2002, he played his first league match after the ban, but replaced by Siyabonga Nomvethe at half-time. The match Udinese lost 0–1 to Verona.

The then played 2 more seasons, for Udinese.

Siena

In January 2005, after just played 2 league matches for the Udine club, he joined another Serie A side Siena. In July 2005, Siena signed him from Udinese in co-ownership deal. He played 31 league matches that season for the Serie A struggler and the Tuscany side choose to sign him permanently in 2006. But in 2006–07 season, he just played 10 starts in 16 Serie A appearances and in 2007–08 season with only 2 starts.

Return to Brazil

In September 2008, he signed a 1½ contract with Clube Atlético Paranaense but only played 8 matches in national leagues.

References

^ ^a ^b "COMUNICATO UFFICIALE N. 507". Commissione Disciplinare, Lega Calcio (in Italian). 27 June 2001. Retrieved 2 September 2011.
^ "Third Udinese player with fake passport". BBC Sport. 22 September 2000. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
^ "Italians bar non-EU imports". UEFA.com. 17 July 2002. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
^ Kennedy, Frances (28 June 2001). "Players banned over false passport scandal". The Independent. UK. Archived from the original on 6 February 2010. Retrieved 9 March 2010. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

External links

[ban-1] "COMUNICATO UFFICIALE N. 507". Commissione Disciplinare, Lega Calcio (in Italian). 27 June 2001. Retrieved 2 September 2011.

[2] "Third Udinese player with fake passport". BBC Sport. 22 September 2000. Retrieved 9 March 2010.

[3] "Italians bar non-EU imports". UEFA.com. 17 July 2002. Retrieved 9 March 2010.

[4] Kennedy, Frances (28 June 2001). "Players banned over false passport scandal". The Independent. UK. Archived from the original on 6 February 2010. Retrieved 9 March 2010. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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