Alberto Valentim do Carmo Neto (born 22 March 1975) is a Brazilian footballcoach and former player who played as a right back. He is the current head coach of Ponte Preta.
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+1⁄2-year contract with Club Athletico Paranaense but only played 8 matches in national leagues.
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 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]
^"Nota Oficial – Valentim" [Official announcement – Valentim] (in Portuguese). Botafogo FR. 19 June 2018. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
^"De volta ao Botafogo" [Back at Botafogo] (in Brazilian Portuguese). Botafogo FR. 11 October 2019. Archived from the original on 11 October 2019. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
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