Before the international football world was shut down due to the epidemic this year, the Copa Libertadores staged a farce: Port Allegre's sworn enemies Brazil International and Gremio staged a group fight, the two teams in a chaos, a small player ran after playing, causing fans to laugh.
This player, the captain of the Brazilian international team Andrés D'Alessandro, nicknamed "Big Head". The former Argentina international is almost 40 years old this year, and he is also the most appearance in the history of this team, he has now made 330 appearances for the international team, leading the second-place player in more than 100 games.
"Big Head" comes from River Plate's academy, but unlike other Argentine players, he doesn't play many games in the Argentine league. In 2003, at the age of 22, D'Alessandro joined Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga. This is also an unexpected choice for Argentine players, but Wolfsburg did have a habit of bringing in Argentine players that year, and Kiroga, who is also from River Plate, has also played here. However, the new star who was pinned high hopes did not meet people's expectations.
In 2006, D'Alessandro was loaned by Wolfsburg to Zaragoza for two seasons, and in 2008, the then 27-year-old left the big five leagues and never returned. He first returned to Argentina and joined San Lorenzo, but only half a season later he came to his current host, Brazil International. If you don't count the brief return to River Plate in 2016, the "big head" has been playing here for 12 seasons.
330 games, 54 goals and 73 assists. Although the Argentine talent, once hailed as "Maradona's successor", did not meet expectations, in Brazil he became the spiritual leader of the team. "Big Head" not only played in the Brazilian League here, in 2017, Brazil International was relegated due to poor results, and "Big Head" did not give up and played with the team in the Brazilian Second Division. It was also during that period that he became the captain of the team.
In more than 300 games here, Datou won a South American Cup and a Copa Libertadores with International, while he played only 26 games in his old club River Plate and won the Argentine League three times. Maybe this is true love, I'm afraid that in the future it will be difficult to have Argentine players playing 330 games in the Bajia team. Datou's contract with Brazil International expires at the end of this year, will he play here until he is over 40 years old?