Chat Fábio Gurgel

At the beginning of this decade, the Alliance was considered one of the biggest teams of Jiu-Jitsu in the world, having won two world titles in 1998 and 99, but the outputs of great stars and the split between the founders weakened the team. The leader of the Alliance in Brazil, Fábio Gurgel gave back over and, ten years later, the team is two times champion again. Won in 2008 and repeated the dose in 2009, winning five gold medals on the male black belt, two silvers and made a champion in female, leading the third world championship with points to spare. In the following interview, General, as he’s called by the students, tells how was recast the team, talk about the critics and analyzes the current market of Jiu-Jitsu.

After the whirlwind that the Alliance has faced, gave up back and won the World Cup in 2008 and 2009. How was this restructuring work?

Last year we won with almost double the points (117 to 66), this year the difference was smaller, although we have done more points (122). The work never stopped, of course that the departure of several quality athletes at the same time, in 2002, shocked the team, but we always had confidence that the time would play on our side. We make Jiu-Jitsu with love and dedication and that’s what we offer to our students, has always been like this and always will be, the result is the consequence of how we face our days...