# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alessandro-rosa-vieira
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:34:48.525Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alessandro-rosa-vieira"
name: "Alessandro Rosa Vieira"
slug: "alessandro-rosa-vieira"
description: "Alessandro Rosa Vieira, known as Falcão, is a Brazilian retired professional futsal player, often regarded as the greatest futsal player of all time and its biggest icon. He is known for his flashy and potent dribbling skills and a powerful and accurate left foot. He is also the world's all-time leading goalscorer in men's international matches. He was named as the Best Futsal Player in the World four times and won the FIFA Futsal World Cup Golden Shoe in 2004 and the Golden Ball twice, in 2004 and 2008.\nToday he is a YouTuber teaching futsal tricks and showing different things about futsal culture. He is also the worldwide ambassador of futsal as a sports discipline, playing showmatches in Brazil and around the world."
tagline: "Brazilian futsal player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Falcao_Rio_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1977-06-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.49
  momentum:             4.918655741598386
  historical:           19.91893466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Falcao12oficial"
    handle:    "Falcao12oficial"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/falcao12oficial/"
    handle:    "falcao12oficial"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/Falcao12oficial"
    handle:    "Falcao12oficial"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.falcao12.com"
sources:
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    title: "亚历山德罗·罗萨·维埃拉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فالكاو (لاعب كرة قدم)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فالكاو (لاعب كورة قدم)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Falcão (futsalista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falc%C3%A3o_(Futsalspieler)"
    title: "Falcão (Futsalspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CE%BB%CE%B5%CF%83%CF%83%CE%AC%CE%BD%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF_%CE%A1%CF%8C%CE%B6%CE%B1_%CE%92%CE%B9%CE%AD%CE%B9%CF%81%CE%B1"
    title: "Αλεσσάντρο Ρόζα Βιέιρα"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Falcão (futsal player)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Rosa_Vieira"
    title: "Alessandro Rosa Vieira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فالکائو (بازیکن فوتسال)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Falcão (futsalpelaaja)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falc%C3%A3o_(futsal)"
    title: "Falcão (futsal)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ֆալկաո (ֆուտզալիստ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Falcão (giocatore di calcio a 5)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "アレッサンドロ・ローザ・ヴィエイラ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Falcão"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alessandro Rosa Vieira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falc%C3%A3o_(jogador_de_futsal)"
    title: "Falcão (jogador de futsal)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Роза Виейра, Алесандро"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Фалкао (футсалер)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Rosa_Vieira"
    title: "Alessandro Rosa Vieira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Фалкан (футcал Плаер)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falc%C3%A3o_(c%E1%BA%A7u_th%E1%BB%A7_futsal)"
    title: "Falcão (cầu thủ futsal)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Rosa_Vieira"
    title: "Alessandro Rosa Vieira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q919942"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump