Alex Pereira Soares (born February 1, 1982) known as Alex, is a Brazilian

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who last played as a

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for Walking Boyz Company in the

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. He finished the 2006–07 season as the league's top scorer while playing for

SV Jai Hanuman Sporting Vereniging Jai Hanuman is a Surinamese football club based in Livorno. The club presently competes in the Eerste Klasse, the 2nd tier of Surinamese football. The club is a part of the Livorno Sportorganisatie (LSO), and the owner is V ...

Career

Born in

Belém Belém (; Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará), often called Belém of Pará, is the capital and largest city of the state of Pará in the north of B ...

, Brazil, Alex moved to

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joining

competing in the

SVB Eerste Klasse The SVB Tweede Divisie is third-highest division overall in the Surinamese football league system after the SVB Eerste Divisie, where the top club is promoted to each season. The weakest club is relegated to the Derde Divisie. The league was pr ...

, the 2nd tier of football in Suriname. Helping Jai Hanuman to win the league title, and thus promoting to the

, Alex provided 28 goals, finishing as the league top scorer while helping his side to a 5th-place finish in the league table once promoted to the top flight. In 2009, he joined Walking Boyz Company, playing in the

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, making four appearances, against

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), Alpha United (

), Joe Public (

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), and

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) where his team were eliminated in the second round of the competition.

Honors

Club

;SV Jai Hanuman *

: 2005–06

Individual

Top Goalscorer: 2006–07

References

Living people 1982 births Footballers from Belém Brazilian men's footballers SVB Eerste Divisie players S.V. Walking Boyz Company players Expatriate men's footballers in Suriname Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Suriname Men's association football forwards 21st-century Brazilian sportsmen Brazilian expatriate men's footballers {{Brazil-footy-forward-1980s-stub