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Alexandre Linhares Giesbrecht (born April 7, 1976, in São Paulo, SP, Brazil) is paulista, paulistano and são-paulino — that means he was born in the state of São Paulo, in the city of São Paulo, and roots for São Paulo FC. Father for the first time. Marketing formation, magazine/newspaper designer as an autodidact, sports historian as a hobby. Or should it be magazine/newspaper designer formation, sports historian as an autodidact and Marketing as a hobby? Whatever. Married. Tired. But always ready if there's an invitation to play soccer. Goalkeeper. Conservative. But prefers to play astray, because his fullbacks have a serious flaw: they trust in him more than he should be trusted in. Since 2006 he lives in a neighborhood that is named Bela Vista by the post office, Liberdade by City Hall, Bixiga by some of the neighbors and Paraíso by others. To him, it's Bela Vista, but he'll probably never be sure about that. He has special feelings for other cities in the state, such as Aguaí, Guarujá, Itanhaém, Porto Ferreira, Santa Cruz das Palmeiras, Santana de Parnaíba, São João da Boa Vista and Sud Mennucci, a city named after his late great grandfather. He's not a railway aficcionado as his father, but likes to study the history of the stations, especially the old ones that still "survive" in São Paulo, like Roosevelt (now Brás), Júlio Prestes and Luz. He collects several magazines, but his favorite one is Placar — "Placar doesn't have readers, it has fans". Keeps a lot of newspapers, has shelves and shelves with books and always sees papers gather on his desk and other furniture at home, especially the dining room table, much to his wife's dismay. Editor of the biggest (and only) ice hockey weekly electronic magazine in Portuguese. Columnist of the biggest (and only) baseball monthly electronic magazine in Portuguese. He loves to write, as long as it's about something he likes. He loves, to draw, too bad he never evolved after he was six years old. Besides rooting for São Paulo, his teams in American sports are the ones hailing from Pittsburgh (Penguins, Pirates and Steelers — maybe not by coincidence, the city has no team in the league of ball-to-the-basket).