 Alcântara before a game withCluj in 2008 | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Hugo da Silva Alcântara | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1979-07-28)28 July 1979 (age 46) | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Cuiabá, Brazil | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||
| Position | Centre back | |||||||||||||
| Team information | ||||||||||||||
Current team | Dom Bosco (manager) | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| 1997 | União Bandeirante | |||||||||||||
| 1998 | Dom Bosco | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1999 | Operário-MT | |||||||||||||
| 2000 | Berga | |||||||||||||
| 2000 | Botafogo | 0 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2001 | Mixto | |||||||||||||
| 2001–2005 | Vitória Setúbal | 103 | (4) | |||||||||||
| 2005–2006 | Académica | 29 | (2) | |||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | Legia Warsaw | 9 | (2) | |||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Belenenses | 25 | (1) | |||||||||||
| 2008–2010 | CFR Cluj | 47 | (6) | |||||||||||
| 2011 | Montedio Yamagata | 0 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2011 | Atlético Paranaense | 0 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | União Leiria | 5 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2013 | Grêmio Osasco | 10 | (1) | |||||||||||
| Total | 228 | (16) | ||||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Dom Bosco | |||||||||||||
| 2015 | Cuiabá (interim) | |||||||||||||
| 2018 | Ação | |||||||||||||
| 2018 | União Rondonópolis | |||||||||||||
| 2019 | Dom Bosco | |||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | Poconé | |||||||||||||
| 2020 | CEOV | |||||||||||||
| 2021– | Dom Bosco | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Hugo da Silva Alcântara (born 28 July 1979) is a Brazilianfootballmanager and former player who played as acentral defender. He is the current manager ofDom Bosco.
He spent most of his professional career in Portugal, amassingPrimeira Liga totals of 138 games and four goals forVitória Setúbal,Académica,Belenenses andUnião de Leiria. He also competed in Poland and Romania.
Born inCuiabá,Mato Grosso, Alcântara played for several modest clubs in his country, almost all hailing from his native region. In2000 he was part ofBotafogo de Futebol e Regatas' roster, but played in no official games.
In the2001–02 season, Alcântara moved toPortugal withVitória de Setúbal, going on to appear in an average of 26 league matches in his four-year spell –2003–04 was spent in thesecond division, with promotion – and helping theSadinos win the 2005domestic cup againstS.L. Benfica (he played the full 90 minutes in the 2–1 final win);[1] he spent2005–06 with fellowPrimeira Liga teamAcadémica de Coimbra, only missing seven contests during the campaign for an eventual 13th-place finish.
After one season inPoland and another back in Portugal withC.F. Os Belenenses, where he was punished with a three-game ban for slappingKostas Katsouranis of Benfica across the face,[2] Alcântara joined a host of Portuguese (or Portugal-based) players atRomanian sideCFR Cluj. He made hisLiga I debut on 26 October 2008 in a 1–2 away loss againstFC Politehnica Timișoara, and proceeded to be relatively used during his stint as they won five major titles, including the2010 national championship with 22 appearances and three goals from the player.
In February 2011, Alcântara signed forJ1 League clubMontedio Yamagata. Beforethe season started, however, he left the club, in the aftermath of theearthquake in Japan. On 4 April, he joinedClube Atlético Paranaense.[3]
After only a three-month spell, 32-year-old Alcântara returned to Portugal once again, signing withU.D. Leiria on 11 July 2011.[4]
