NetsDaily · Jun 15, 2015
Nets life-saving assistant trainer started out wanting to be soccer player
Ale Oliveira is the Nets assistant trainer ... and along with Lloyd Beckett, the Nets director of rehab therapy ... the NBA's assistant trainer of the year. The two were honored for their work this year, and particularly the life saving effort they and Tim Walsh performed on Jim Sann, the Nets assistant coach, after he suffered a heart attack at the Nets training facility February 1.
That's not how Oliveira thought his career in professional sports would work out when he was a kid on the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil, as reported by ESPN Brazil. Oliveira thought he was going to play professional soccer!