This is a strange fact, but this man`s name is Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva. He took his name from his birthplace, Pato Branco in Brazil, and also from the fact that that at one time before the invention of the football, people would kick a bag with a duck in it - so as Pato means duck in Spanish and Portuguese, it came to also mean the so called sport.
He was born in Brazil on the second of September 1989, and his talent was spotted early - at the age of eleven he was playing for Sport Club Internacional, based at Porto Alegre. He stayed with them and joined the main team in 2006, but only for one year, before he was picked up by A.C. Milan and moved to Italy. He was there until 2013, then suddenly he was back in Brazil, playing for Sport Club Corinthians Paulista. They also loaned him, twice, to Sao Paulo Futebol Club, in 2014, and back to England, for less than a year, to play for Chelsea.
This was the catalyst which saw him embark on pretty much a World Tour, starting in Spain, with Villareal Club de Futbol of Valencia, then off to Tianjin Tianhai F.C., in China. He left there in 2019, and returned to Sao Paulo, from where, in just over a year, he found himself in America, playing for Orlando City, Florida. After that, in 2023, he returned to Sao Paulo again and then retired, not so long after. at the age of just thirty-four..
Since then, he has remained within the sport, but as a sports commentator.
This card is universally regarded to be his "Rookie" card, and that is supported a great deal by the word "Aggiornamenti", which means update - in other words, footballers added to the teams since the main set was issued. The cards added in for this team, A.C. Milan, are Guiseppi Favalli, Valerio Fiori, Pato, Alberto Paloschi, Serginho, and Dario Simic. Most of these simply moved there from another team, but this set also provides us with the "Rookie" card of Alberto Paloschi
The main set is known as Calciatori 07 08, or 2007/2008. That is a set of seven hundred and five stickers, twenty-four of which show A.C. Milan. However, there seems absolutely no difference between our card and the main set, they have the same yellowy orange border, the same logos, etc. The only difference seems to be that our card and those from the update set are not actually numbered. So technically, although a lot of football websites call this card A.66, that is not the truth according to the card.