| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alexandre Torreira da Gama Lima Casado | ||
| Date of birth | (1968-01-04)4 January 1968 (age 57) | ||
| Place of birth | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Lamphun Warriors (head coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1983–1990 | Fluminense | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1989–1990 | Fluminense | 3 | (0) |
| 1990–1991 | Bragantino | ||
| 1991 | América de Três Rios | ||
| 1993 | São José-SP | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| 2002–2004 | Fluminense (youth) | ||
| 2004 | Fluminense | ||
| 2005 | Inter de Limeira | ||
| 2005–2006 | Fluminense (youth) | ||
| 2006–2008 | Al-Wahda | ||
| 2008 | Macaé | ||
| 2008 | Volta Redonda | ||
| 2009–2010 | Gyeongnam (assistant) | ||
| 2011 | South Korea (assistant) | ||
| 2013 | Madureira | ||
| 2014 | Al-Shahaniya | ||
| 2014–2016 | Buriram United | ||
| 2016–2018 | Chiangrai United | ||
| 2018 | Thailand U21 | ||
| 2018–2019 | Thailand U23 | ||
| 2019–2020 | Muangthong United | ||
| 2020–2021 | Buriram United | ||
| 2022 | Daegu FC | ||
| 2022– | Lamphun Warriors | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 02:00, 26 October 2020 (UTC) | |||
Alexandre Torreira da Gama Lima Casado (born 4 January 1968) is a Brazilianfootball manager who is currently the head coach ofThai League 1 clubLamphun Warriors.
As a player,Alexandre Gama was known as "GAMA", started his career in the youth categories ofFluminense in 1983, where he was champion of Rio de Janeiro in 1988 and of theSão Paulo Junior Cup in 1989, from that first conquest, he started to make part of the professional squad and participated in the 1990 Rio Cup triumph, shortly after that triumph he was sold toBragantino where he was part of the team that won the Paulista championship that year and reached the final of theBrazilian championship in 1991, then went to Europe, where he played until you end your career.
In 2002, he started his career as a coach in the youth division ofFluminense, beingCarioca Children's Champion, reaching the interim training of the main team with the departure ofRobertinho. He would return to command the Tricolor das Laranjeiras in 2004, assuming the team in place ofRicardo Gomes, when he assumed, interim, the team was in the penultimate position of the Brazilian Championship, it was a team full of renowned players, such asRomário,Edmundo,Ramon,Roger,Leonardo Moura, among others and soon the team started to get right and grew in the competition, Alexandre Gama ended up being effective and managed to finish the competition in 9th place, qualifying for the 2005South American Cup, an achievement, taking into account the terrible campaign that the team did until he took it on.
After a short stint at Inter de Limeira, he returned to training the youth teams ofFluminense between 2005 and 2006, where he became the World Junior Champion in 2005 in a tournament held in theUnited Arab Emirates, where he started to work when he took overAl Wahda FC in 2006, back in Brazil in 2008, he commanded two clubs in Rio de Janeiro:Macaé,Volta Redonda where he left and returned Asian football, to coachGyeongnam FC, fromSouth Korea, where he was also assistant coach of theSouth Korean team in 2012, during the qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, in a new return to Brazil in 2013, he trainedMadureira (Campeonato Carioca andSérie D do Brasileiro) andDuque de Caxias, in that period, he was elected the 3rd best coach of theCampeonato Carioca de 2013. He left Brazil again at the beginning of 2014 to trainAl-Shahaniya, fromQatar, where he obtained the club's access to the First Division after 33 years of failed attempts, after this feat, he was hired by loBuriram United where he was twice national champion between 2014 and 2015, won 6 more titles, stayed Buriram until 2016 and in 2017 went toChiangrai United, with the mission of turning the team into a winning team and winning the first title in its history and in the first year he managed to become champion of theChang FA Cup and in the following year he won theKor Royal Cup, left the club at the end of 2018, with 4 titles won and took over theThai Olympic Team with the mission of taking the country to the Olympiad 2020 in Tokyo, Japan, he was in charge of it for about 6 months, until he received a proposal to take over theMuangthong United team that was doing a terrible campaign in the Thai championship, a rare fact in its history, since it is one of the great of football in the country and gave Alexandre Gama the opportunity to once again show his excellent work and succeed, in addition to saving the team from the unprecedented relegation, to finish the competition in 5th place.Alexandre Gama is the most successful coach in the history of Thai football, with 12 titles won in 14 disputed finals. In 2015, he was elected the best Thai coach among all sports practiced in the country, this award is considered the Oscar of Thai sport, all this prestige makesAlexandre Gama, the biggest name of Thai Football at the moment.[1]
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | ||||||
| Al-Wahda |  | 1 July 2006 | 30 June 2008 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 020.00 | ||
| Buriram United |  | 8 June 2014 | 22 May 2016 | 85 | 54 | 19 | 12 | 063.53 | ||
| Chiangrai United | | 20 October 2016 | 27 October 2018 | 92 | 51 | 20 | 21 | 055.43 | ||
| Thailand U21 | | 1 November 2018 | 30 November 2018 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 000.00 | ||
| Thailand U23 | | 1 November 2018 | 11 June 2019 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 040.00 | ||
| Muangthong United | | 12 June 2019 | 17 October 2020 | 27 | 15 | 3 | 9 | 055.56 | ||
| Buriram United | | 22 October 2020 | 28 November 2021 | 43 | 31 | 5 | 7 | 072.09 | ||
| Daegu |  | 22 December 2021 | 14 August 2022 | 36 | 10 | 15 | 11 | 027.78 | ||
| Lamphun Warriors | | 17 November 2022 | Present | 88 | 34 | 22 | 32 | 038.64 | ||
| Career Total | 389 | 200 | 91 | 98 | 051.41 | |||||
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