Alex dos Santos Cazumba (born 30 June 1988), usually known as Alex Cazumba, Alequito or Alex, is a Brazilian

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currently playing for Operário Ferroviário, on loan from Bahia de Feira.

Career

Alex Cazumba played for the São Paulo youth teams before being promoted into the senior team in 2007. He was loaned out to several Brazilian regional over the next couple of years, making first team appearances for Juventude and

Figueirense Figueirense Futebol Clube, commonly referred to as Figueirense, is a Brazilian professional club based in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina founded on 12 June 1921. It competes in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série C, the third tier of Brazilian fo ...

. He was sent out on loan to

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team

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in 2010 along with fellow Brazilians from the club Leonardo and

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. He made his debut for the team on March 27, 2010, in Galaxy's opening game of the 2010 MLS season against

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. His first MLS goal came on June 5, 2010, in a 4–1 defeat of the

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Honours

;São Paulo *

Campeonato Brasileiro Série A The Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (; English: "Brazilian Championship A Series"), commonly referred to as the Brasileirão (; English: "Big Brazilian" or "Great Brazilian"), the Série A or the Brazilian Série A (to distinguish it from the I ...

(1):

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

; Los Angeles Galaxy *

Supporter's Shield (1):

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

;Botafogo da Paraíba *

Campeonato Paraibano The Campeonato Paraibano is the top-flight professional state football league in the Brazilian state of Paraíba Paraíba ( , ; ) is a states of Brazil, state of Brazil. It is located in the Brazilian Northeast, and it is bordered by Rio Gr ...

(1): 2014

References

External links

globoesporte.globo.com

CBF

MLS player profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cazumba, Alex 1988 births Living people Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Brazilian men's footballers Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players Campeonato Brasileiro Série C players Campeonato Brasileiro Série D players Major League Soccer players Super League Greece players São Paulo FC players Rio Claro Futebol Clube players Esporte Clube Juventude players Toledo Esporte Clube players Vila Nova Futebol Clube players Ituano FC players Botafogo Futebol Clube (SP) players Esporte Clube XV de Novembro (Piracicaba) players Associação Ferroviária de Esportes players Xanthi F.C. players Operário Ferroviário Esporte Clube players Clube Náutico Marcílio Dias players Esporte Clube Vitória players Associação Desportiva Bahia de Feira players Botafogo Futebol Clube (PB) players América Futebol Clube (RN) players Nacional Futebol Clube players Esporte Clube Passo Fundo players Mogi Mirim Esporte Clube players Men's association football fullbacks 21st-century Brazilian sportsmen