Introduction
Alexandre Tadeu Gallo, best known as Gallo (born in Ribeirão Preto, May 29, 1967) is a retired Brazilian footballer who played as a defensive midfielder, and the current manager of São Caetano.
Career
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 forCorinthians, in 2001.
Titles
He got many championships like Campeonato Paulista (São Paulo State League) in 1998 with São Paulo club and Campeonato Mineiro (Minas Gerais State League) in 1999 and 2000 with Atlético Mineiro.
Coaching career
After his retirement as a player, he became assistant-coach, working with coach Carlos Alberto Parreirain 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 Luxemburgowas 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.
Also he coached the big Brazilian club Internacional, during 20 games and conquered the Recopa Sudamericana (SouthAmerican Re-Cup 2007), and during Brazilian Championship, when he moved to Figueirense. On 5 September 2009 Esporte Clube Santo André officials have dismissed coach after just seven games but no wins.
Honours
As a player
- Santos
- Copa Denner: 1994
- Copa Verão: 1996
- São Paulo
- Campeonato Paulista: 1998
- Atlético Mineiro
- Campeonato Mineiro: 1999, 2000
- Three Continents Cup (Vietnã): 1999
- Corinthians
- Campeonato Paulista: 2001
As an Assistant Coach
- Santos
- Campeonato Brasileiro 2004
- Brazilian National Team
- Confederations Cup : 2013
As a manager
- Sport
- Campeonato Pernambucano: 2007
- Internacional
- Recopa Sudamericana: 2007
- Figueirense
- Campeonato Catarinense: 2008
- Al-Ain
- Radif Cup: 2011
- Brazil U20
- Torneio Internacional de L'Alcúdia (COTIF) de 2014
- Panda Cup China: 2014
- Brazil Olympic Team
- Valais Youth Cup : 2013
- Taça do Centenário do Carlos Renaux: 2013
- Torneio Internacional da China: 2014
- Toulon Tournament: 2013, 2014