Alexandre Gama

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Alexandre Gama
Personal information
Full name Alexandre Torreira da Gama Lima Casado
Date of birth (1968-01-04) 4 January 1968 (age 56)
Place of birth Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Lamphun Warriors (manager)
Youth career
1983–1990 Fluminense
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(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 Brazilian football manager who is currently the manager of Thai League 1 club Lamphun Warriors.

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Playing career

As a player, Alexandre Gama was known as "GAMA", started his career in the youth categories of Fluminense in 1983, where he was champion of Rio de Janeiro in 1988 and of the São 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 to Bragantino where he was part of the team that won the Paulista championship that year and reached the final of the Brazilian championship in 1991, then went to Europe, where he played until you end your career.

Managerial career

In 2002, he started his career as a coach in the youth division of Fluminense, being Carioca Children's Champion, reaching the interim training of the main team with the departure of Robertinho. He would return to command the Tricolor das Laranjeiras in 2004, assuming the team in place of Ricardo 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 as Romário, 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 2005 South 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 of Fluminense between 2005 and 2006, where he became the World Junior Champion in 2005 in a tournament held in the United Arab Emirates, where he started to work when he took over Al 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 coach Gyeongnam FC, from South Korea, where he was also assistant coach of the South Korean team in 2012, during the qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, in a new return to Brazil in 2013, he trained Madureira (Campeonato Carioca and Série D do Brasileiro) and Duque de Caxias, in that period, he was elected the 3rd best coach of the Campeonato Carioca de 2013. He left Brazil again at the beginning of 2014 to train Al-Shahaniya, from Qatar, where he obtained the club's access to the First Division after 33 years of failed attempts, after this feat, he was hired by lo Buriram United where he was twice national champion between 2014 and 2015, won 6 more titles, stayed Buriram until 2016 and in 2017 went to Chiangrai 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 the Chang FA Cup and in the following year he won the Kor Royal Cup, left the club at the end of 2018, with 4 titles won and took over the Thai 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 the Muangthong 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 makes Alexandre Gama, the biggest name of Thai Football at the moment. [1]

Managerial statistics

As of match played 24 April 2024
Managerial record by team and tenure
TeamNatFromToRecord
GWDLWin %
Al-Wahda Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg 1 July 200630 June 20085131020.00
Buriram United Flag of Thailand.svg 8 June 201422 May 201685541912063.53
Chiangrai United Flag of Thailand.svg 20 October 201627 October 201892512021055.43
Thailand U21 Flag of Thailand.svg 1 November 201830 November 20183012000.00
Thailand U23 Flag of Thailand.svg 1 November 201811 June 201910433040.00
Muangthong United Flag of Thailand.svg 12 June 201917 October 2020271539055.56
Buriram United Flag of Thailand.svg 22 October 202028 November 2021433157072.09
Daegu Flag of South Korea.svg 22 December 202114 August 202236101511027.78
Lamphun Warriors Flag of Thailand.svg 17 November 2022Present53221318041.51
Total3541888284053.11

Honours

Assistant manager

South Korea

Manager

Al-Wahda

Buriram United

Chiangrai United

Individual

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References

  1. ↑ "Alexandre Gama takes charge of Daegu FC". the-AFC.
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