Matheus Alessandro dos Santos Pereira (born 10 July 1996) is a Brazilian professional

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who plays as a winger for Portuguese club

União de Leiria União Desportiva de Leiria (), commonly known as União de Leiria, is a Portuguese professional Association football, football club based in Leiria. Founded on 6 June 1966, it currently plays in the Liga Portugal 2, holding home matches at Está ...

Club career

Born in

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, Alessandro started his youth career with the academy of Xerém. In 2012, he signed for the under-17 team of

Fluminense Fluminense Football Club () is a Brazilian sports club based in the neighbourhood of Laranjeiras, in Rio de Janeiro, being the oldest football club in the state since its foundation in 1902. It competes in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, th ...

, after impressing the club's scouts during Taça das Favelas. He won the Brasileiro under-20 with the youth side in 2016. Ahead of the 2017 season, Alessandro was promoted to the senior team. On 27 April 2017, he made his first team debut in a 1–1 draw against Brasil de Pelotas, in

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. On 11 May, his contract was extended till 2020. He made his league debut on 3 June, coming on as a substitute for

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in a 3–1 victory against Vitória. On 4 November, he scored his first goal for the club, scoring the winning goal in a 2–1 triumph over

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. On 7 January 2019, Alessandro joined

Fortaleza Fortaleza ( ; ; ) is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeastern Brazil. It is Brazil's 4th largest city—Fortaleza surpassed Salvador, Bahia, Salvador in 2022 census with a population of slightly over 2.4 mi ...

on loan for the upcoming season. He went to South Korea on the pause for the 2019 American Cup. In July 2019, Alessandro joined

Daejeon FC Daejeon Hana Citizen FC () is a South Korean professional football team based in Daejeon, competing in K League 1, the top tier of South Korean football. At the time of its foundation in 1997, Daejeon was the first community-owned club in South K ...

on loan for the upcoming season. However it was cancelled due to medical tests. On 11 September 2021,

FC Alashkert Football Club Alashkert (), commonly known as Alashkert, is an Armenian football club based in the capital Yerevan, founded in 1990 in Martuni and after folding in 2000 re-founded in 2011. They currently play in the Armenian Premier League. The ...

announced the signing of Alessandro. On 3 January 2022, Boavista announced Alessandro's signing.

Career statistics

Personal life

Alessandro's father represented

CR Vasco da Gama Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama (; English: Vasco da Gama Club of Rowing), commonly referred to as Vasco da Gama or simply Vasco, is a sports club based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Although originally a rowing club and then a multi-sport club, Va ...

as a youth and died when Alessandro was two years old. His uncle, Fernando is a former professional footballer who amongst other clubs played for

Vasco da Gama Vasco da Gama ( , ; – 24 December 1524), was a Portuguese explorer and nobleman who was the Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India, first European to reach India by sea. Da Gama's first voyage (1497–1499) was the first to link ...

and

Flamengo Clube de Regatas do Flamengo (; ), more commonly referred to as simply Flamengo, is a Brazilian multi sports club based in Rio de Janeiro, in the neighborhood of Gávea. It was founded and named after the Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Flamengo n ...

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Matheus Alessandro
at Fluminense's website {{DEFAULTSORT:Matheus Alessandro 1996 births Living people Footballers from Rio de Janeiro (city) Brazilian men's footballers Men's association football forwards Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players Armenian Premier League players Fluminense FC players Fortaleza Esporte Clube players FC Alashkert players Boavista Sport Club players Volta Redonda FC players Associação Atlética Ponte Preta players Santa Cruz Futebol Clube players Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Armenia Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Armenia 21st-century Brazilian sportsmen