Alex Rodrigo da Silva Merlim (born 15 July 1986), also known as Babalu, is a

futsal Futsal is a variant of association football played between two teams of five players each on a court smaller than a football pitch. Its rules are based on the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game of association football, and i ...

player who plays for

Sporting CP Sporting Clube de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries,

. Born in Brazil, he represents the Italian national futsal team as a winger.

Honours

* Liga Portuguesa: 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23 *

Taça de Portugal The Taça de Portugal (; ) is an annual association football competition and the premier knockout tournament in Portuguese football. For sponsorship reasons, it has been known as Taça de Portugal Generali Tranquilidade since the 2024–25 seaso ...

: 2015–16, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2021–22 *

Taça da Liga de Futsal The Taça da Liga de Futsal () is the second Portuguese futsal knock-out competition. It was created in 2016 to be disputed in a yearly basis by the eight-best ranked teams of the National Championship at the end of the latter's first half of the r ...

: 2015–16, 2017–18, 2020–21, 2021–22 *

Supertaça de Futsal Supertaça de Portugal de Futsal (English: Portuguese Futsal Super Cup) is a futsal cup in Portugal, played by the winners of the Portuguese Futsal First Division and the winners of the Taça de Portugal de Futsal, Portuguese Futsal Cup. GDC Corr ...

: 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022 *

UEFA Futsal Champions League The UEFA Futsal Champions League is an annual futsal competition for European club teams organized by UEFA. It was founded as the UEFA Futsal Cup in 2001 and replaced the Futsal European Clubs Championship, an unofficial competition held since 1 ...

: 2018–19,

2020–21 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen ...

References

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Sporting CP profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Merlim, Alex 1986 births Living people Futsal forwards Italian men's futsal players Brazilian men's futsal players Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Brazilian emigrants to Italy Luparense Calcio a 5 players Sporting CP futsal players Brazilian people of Italian descent Italian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Sportspeople from Dourados Naturalised citizens of Italy Naturalised sports competitors 21st-century Italian sportsmen 21st-century Brazilian sportsmen