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Dudu Cearense
	Dudu with CSKA Moscow in February 2007
Personal information
Full name	Alessandro Silva de Sousa
Date of birth	15 April 1983 (age 41)
Place of birth	Fortaleza, Brazil
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Central midfielder
Youth career
1998	Ceará
1998–2000	Vitória
Senior career*
Years	Team
2000–2003	Vitória
2004	Kashiwa Reysol
2004–2005	Rennes
2005–2008	CSKA Moscow
2008–2011	Olympiacos
2011–2012	Atlético Mineiro
2012–2013	Goiás
2014	OFI Crete
2014	Maccabi Netanya
2015–2016	Fortaleza
2016–2018	Botafogo
International career
2002–2003	Brazil U-20
2003–2004	Brazil U-23
2004–2007	Brazil
Medal record
Representing Brazil
Copa América
FIFA U-20 World Cup
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alexandro Silva de Sousa (born 15 April 1983), known as Dudu Cearense or simply Dudu, is a Brazilian former professional footballer.

He is known for his passing, aerial ability and tackling. He was a central midfielder who usually played either in a holding midfield role or as a box-to-box midfielder. Despite often being used in a defensive position, he was mainly an attacking player. He has been capped for the Brazil national team.

Career

Dudu was born in Fortaleza, Ceará.

In February 2005, after spending half a season playing for Rennes in France, Dudu transferred to CSKA Moscow, where he joined and played with fellow Brazilians Daniel Carvalho, Vagner Love, and later Jô.

In 2007, Dudu expressed his wish to leave CSKA Moscow. Olympiacos tried to sign him, but failed. In 2008, Olympiacos offered the Russian club €6 million. The offer was accepted and the player signed a three-year contract on 6 August 2008.^[1] In May 2009, he signed a new contract with the Greek club which would last until June 2013 with a buyout clause of €8.5 million.

On 7 April 2011, Olympiacos agreed to sell Dudu Cearense to Atlético Mineiro for a fee of €1.1 million. Dudu signed a three-year contract with the Brazilian team. In 2012 he moved to Goiás until the end of his contract in January 2014. Goiás wanted to extend with the player but he wanted to return to Europe. On 27 January 2014, he agreed a 1.5-year contract with Greek Club OFI.

On 5 June 2014, he agreed for a one-year contract worth $245,000 with Maccabi Netanya of the Israel Premier League (biggest contract in the history of the club). Three weeks later, it was reported Dudu was injured and in poor shape. He was released on 22 September. He never played for Netanya in the league and only made two appearances in the Toto Cup.^[2]^[3] He is considered the biggest flop in the club's history, mainly for the fact he never even played once in the league and the club had to pay $50,000 compensation after his release.^[4]

On 10 January 2015, he returned to Brazil and agreed to a contract with Fortaleza.

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 22 February 2018^[5]^[6]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club	Season	League			National Cup		League Cup		Continental		Other		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Vitória	2001	Série A	0	0			–		–				0	0
	2002		18	0			–		–				18	0
	2003		31	6			–		–				31	6
	Total		49	6			-	-	-	-			49	6
Kashiwa Reysol	2004	J1 League	11	2	0	0	3	0	–		–		14	2
Stade Rennais	2004–05	Ligue 1	15	1					–		–		15	1
CSKA Moscow^[7]	2005	Russian Premier League	21	3	1	0	-		3	0	1	0	26	3
	2006		28	2	7	2	-		8	1	1	0	44	5
	2007		15	1	2	0	-		7	0	1	0	25	1
	2008		10	1	2	0	-		0	0	-		12	1
	Total		74	7	12	2	-	-	18	1	3	0	107	10
Olympiacos	2008–09	Superleague Greece	26	3			-		7	1	-		33	4
	2009–10		20	4			-		10	1	-		30	5
	2010–11		19	0			-		4	3	-		23	3
	Total		65	7			-	-	21	5	-	-	86	12
Atlético Mineiro	2011	Série A	13	3			–		–				13	3
	2012	Série A	4	0			–		–				4	0
	Total		17	3			-	-	-	-			17	3
Goiás	2012	Série B	4	1			–		–				4	1
	2013	Série A	19	1	7	0	–		–		16	5	42	6
	Total		23	2	7	0	-	-	-	-	16	5	46	7
OFI Crete	2013–14	Superleague Greece	11	3	3	1	–		–		–		14	4
Maccabi Netanya	2014–15	Israeli Premier League	0	0	0	0	2	0	–		–		2	0
Fortaleza	2015	Série C	6	2	2	0	–		–		7	0	15	2
	2016	Série C	1	0	3	0	–		–		16	2	20	2
	Total		7	2	5	0	-	-	-	-	23	2	35	4
Botafogo	2016	Série A	16	1	1	0	–		–		0	0	16	1
	2017		13	0	1	0	–		4	0	7	1	24	1
	2018		0	0	0	0	–		–		4	0	4	0
	Total		29	1	2	0	-	-	4	0	11	1	46	2
Career total			301	34	29	3	2	0	43	6	53	8	428	51