Alex Texeira Santos or simply Alex Texeira is a brazilian football player on the centre attacking midfielder role. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he started there with professional football, by Vasco da Gama as an 18 year old. 2010 he lastly signed for Shaktar Donezk in the ukranian league. He joined Chinese club Juangsu Suning on 5 February 2016. He played for his country in severall U-Levels, like in 2009 for U-20 Nationalteam, scoring there three times in 7 games.