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Alberto Valentim do Carmo Neto (born 22 March 1975) is a Brazilian football coach and former player who played as a right back. He is the current head coach of Ponte Preta.

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Alberto Valentim
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Valentim in 2018
Personal information
Full name Alberto Valentim do Carmo Neto
Date of birth (1975-03-22) 22 March 1975 (age 49)
Place of birth Oliveira, Brazil
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Right back
Team information
Current team
Ponte Preta (head coach)
Youth career
América Mineiro
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995 Guarani 4 (0)
1995–1996 Inter de Limeira
1996–1999 Atlético Paranaense 73 (1)
1997São Paulo (loan) 0 (0)
1997Cruzeiro (loan) 0 (0)
1998Flamengo (loan) 0 (0)
2000–2005 Udinese 86 (3)
2005Siena (loan) 15 (0)
2005–2008 Siena 62 (0)
2008–2009 Athletico Paranaense 8 (0)
Total 248 (4)
International career
1995 Brazil U20 5 (0)
1995 Brazil U23 5 (0)
Managerial career
2012–2013 Athletico Paranaense (assistant)
2013 Athletico Paranaense (interim)
2014–2016 Palmeiras (assistant)
2014 Palmeiras (interim)
2014 Palmeiras (interim)
2015 Palmeiras (interim)
2016 Palmeiras (interim)
2017 Red Bull Brasil
2017 Palmeiras (assistant)
2017 Palmeiras (interim)
2018 Botafogo
2018 Pyramids
2018–2019 Vasco da Gama
2019 Avaí
2019–2020 Botafogo
2021 Cuiabá
2021–2022 Athletico Paranaense
2022 CSA
2023 Atlético Goianiense
2024 Ituano
2025– Ponte Preta
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
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Playing career

Brazil

Born in Oliveira, Minas Gerais, Alberto started his professional career at Guarani of São Paulo state. After a spell at Inter de Limeira, then spent 4 seasons at Athletico Paranaense, which also loaned to São Paulo and Flamengo for Copa do Brasil, Campeonato Paulista and Campeonato Carioca, and Cruzeiro for the 1997 Intercontinental Cup.

Udinese

In January 2000, he was signed by Italian Serie A club Udinese via Rentistas for US$6.65 million.[1] He played his first Serie A match on 23 January, replaced Roberto Sosa in the 79th minutes. The match Udinese won Venezia 5–2. He played 14 league matches in the first season. But in September 2000, along with Warley, were found using a fake Portuguese passport by Polish officials while heading to Poland for the match against Polonia Warsaw.[2] It followed by an investigation of Italian police, and found 2 more teammate namely Jorginho Paulista and Alejandro Da Silva were using fake passport. It is because Serie A restricted each club could only had 5 non-European Union footballers and 3 in each match, a fake passport could increase their chance to win a contract with Italian club. However, that season Alberto played 27 league matches and scored 2 goals, as the quota system was abolished in the mid of season.[3] In June 2001, Alberto, along with a dozen other including 3 of Alberto's teammate, were banned, 10 of them including Alberto for a year and 3 youth players for 6 months.[1][4] but allowed to remain at Italy. The ban was later reduced. On 14 April 2002, he played his first league match after the ban, but replaced by Siyabonga Nomvethe at half-time. The match Udinese lost 0–1 to Verona.

The then played 2 more seasons, for Udinese.

Siena

In January 2005, after just played 2 league matches for the Udine club, he joined another Serie A side Siena. In July 2005, Siena signed him from Udinese in co-ownership deal. He played 31 league matches that season for the Serie A struggler and the Tuscany side choose to sign him permanently in 2006. But in 2006–07 season, he just played 10 starts in 16 Serie A appearances and in 2007–08 season with only 2 starts.

Return to Brazil

In September 2008, he signed a 1+12-year contract with Club Athletico Paranaense but only played 8 matches in national leagues.

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Managerial career

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Valentim with Palmeiras in 2016

In 2012, Valentim returned to Atlético Paranaense as an assistant manager. He left the club in the following year, and joined Palmeiras in 2014, also as an assistant.

On 13 December 2016, Valentim was announced as Red Bull Brasil manager.[5] The following 18 April, after a poor campaign in the 2017 Campeonato Paulista, he was sacked.[6]

On 24 June 2017, Valentim returned to Palmeiras, again as an assistant.[7] On 13 October, he was appointed interim manager in the place of sacked Cuca.[8] Despite finishing second, he was released by the club on 5 December.[9]

On 13 February 2018, Valentim was named manager of Botafogo.[10] On 19 June, he resigned after accepting an offer from an Egyptian Club, Pyramids FC.[11]

On 18 August 2018, Valentim left Pyramids FC following a dispute with the club's owner Turki Al-Sheikh regarding the future of the team's striker Ribamar.[12] Just one week later, he has joined Vasco da Gama for the remainder of the Campeonato Brasileiro campaign.

Valentim was sacked on 21 April 2019, after losing the year's Campeonato Carioca. On 18 June, he took over fellow top-tier side Avaí, replacing fired Geninho,[13] but returned to Botafogo on 11 October.[14] He was dismissed by Bota for the second time on 9 February 2020, after a poor campaign in the Carioca.[15]

On 1 April 2021, Valentim was named manager of top tier newcomers Cuiabá.[16] He won the year's Campeonato Mato-Grossense, but was dismissed on 29 May after seven wins in ten matches.[17]

On 1 October 2021, Valentim was named manager of Athletico Paranaense, still in the top tier.[18] He left on a mutual agreement the following 10 April, after a 0–4 loss to São Paulo in the 2022 Série A opener.[19]

On 15 June 2022, Valentim replaced Mozart at the helm of CSA.[20] On 8 August, however, he was dismissed.[21]

On 5 May 2023, after nearly one year without coaching, Valentim was named in charge of Atlético Goianiense in division two,[22] but was dismissed on 10 July.[23] On 26 February 2024, he was appointed head coach of fellow second division side Ituano.[24]

Valentim suffered relegation with Ituano in the 2024 Campeonato Paulista, and was relieved from his duties on 20 October of that year, with the side also in the relegation zone of the 2024 Série B.[25] On 26 November, he was announced as head coach of Ponte Preta.[26]

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Managerial statistics

As of 8 August 2022.
More information Team, Nat ...
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nat From To Record Ref
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Atlético Paranaense (interim) Brazil 12 July 2013 14 July 2013 100101−1000.00 [27]
Palmeiras (interim) Brazil 8 May 2014 1 June 2014 741274+3057.14 [28]
Palmeiras (interim) Brazil 2 September 2014 4 September 2014 100102−2000.00 [28]
Palmeiras (interim) Brazil 9 June 2015 14 June 2015 110021+1100.00 [28]
Palmeiras (interim) Brazil 10 March 2016 14 March 2016 110020+2100.00 [28]
Red Bull Brasil Brazil 13 December 2016 18 April 2017 154471922−3026.67
Palmeiras (interim) Brazil 13 October 2017 5 December 2017 116142316+7054.55 [28]
Botafogo Brazil 13 February 2018 19 June 2018 2611873431+3042.31 [29]
Pyramids Egypt 20 June 2018 16 August 2018 321042+2066.67 [30]
Vasco da Gama Brazil 24 August 2018 21 April 2019 411711134640+6041.46
Avaí Brazil 18 June 2019 13 October 2019 15348926−17020.00 [31]
Botafogo Brazil 14 October 2019 9 February 2020 187291624−8038.89 [32]
Cuiabá Brazil 1 April 2021 29 May 2021 10730185+13070.00 [17]
Athletico Paranaense Brazil 1 October 2021 10 April 2022 2888122534−9028.57 [33]
CSA Brazil 15 June 2022 8 August 2022 10145612−6010.00
Atlético Goianiense Brazil 5 May 2023 10 July 2023 123631218−6025.00
Ituano Brazil 26 February 2024 20 October 2024 3494213757−20026.47
Ponte Preta Brazil 26 November 2024 present 000000+0!
Career total 234845793260295−35035.90
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Honours

Player

Guarani

Inter de Limeira

São Paulo

Udinese

Athletico Paranaense

Brazil U20

Individual


Manager

Botafogo

Vasco da Gama

Cuiabá

Athletico Paranaense

References

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