Alberto Valentim do Carmo Neto (born 22 March 1975) is a Brazilian football

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and former player who played as a

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Playing career

Brazil

Born in

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, Alberto started his professional career at Guarani of

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. After a spell at

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, then spent 4 seasons at Athletico Paranaense, which also loaned to

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and

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for

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, Campeonato Paulista and Campeonato Carioca, and Cruzeiro for the

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Udinese

In January 2000, he was signed by Italian Serie A club

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via Rentistas for US$6.65 million. He played his first Serie A match on 23 January, replaced Roberto Sosa in the 79th minutes. The match Udinese won

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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

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. 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

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restricted each club could only had 5 non-

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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. 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. 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

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. The then played 2 more seasons, for Udinese.

Siena

In January 2005, after just played 2 league matches for the

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club, he joined another Serie A side

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. 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 -year contract with

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but only played 8 matches in national leagues.

Managerial career

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

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in 2014, also as an assistant. On 13 December 2016, Valentim was announced as

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manager. The following 18 April, after a poor campaign in the

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, he was sacked. On 24 June 2017, Valentim returned to Palmeiras, again as an assistant. On 13 October, he was appointed interim manager in the place of sacked Cuca. Despite finishing second, he was released by the club on 5 December. On 13 February 2018, Valentim was named manager of

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. On 19 June, he resigned after accepting an offer from an Egyptian Club,

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. 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. 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

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, replacing fired

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, but returned to Botafogo on 11 October. He was dismissed by ''Bota'' for the second time on 9 February 2020, after a poor campaign in the

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. On 1 April 2021, Valentim was named manager of top tier newcomers

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. He won the year's Campeonato Mato-Grossense, but was dismissed on 29 May after seven wins in ten matches. On 1 October 2021, Valentim was named manager of Athletico Paranaense, still in the top tier. He left on a mutual agreement the following 10 April, after a 0–4 loss to

in the 2022 Série A opener. On 15 June 2022, Valentim replaced Mozart at the helm of

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. On 8 August, however, he was dismissed.

Managerial statistics

Honours

Player

Guarani *

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: 1994 Inter de Limeira *

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: 1996 São Paulo * Campeonato Paulista: 1998 Udinese * UEFA Intertoto Cup:

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Athletico Paranaense * Campeonato Paranaense: 2009 Brazil U20 *

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: 1995 Individual * Bola de Prata: 1996

Manager

Botafogo * Campeonato Carioca:

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Vasco da Gama *

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: 2019 Cuiabá * Campeonato Mato-Grossense: 2021 Athletico Paranaense * Copa Sudamericana:

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