About Us

SportExchange.com.br is a college sport recruitment service that provides US collegiate coaches with in-depth athletic and academic information on high quality talented athletes from Brazil. At SportExchange.com.br we pride ourselves on aligning US college coaches' needs and requirements with Brazilian athlete’s talents and desires.

SportExchange.com.br was developed by Managing Director and Founder Mauricio Azevedo Dos Santos. Born in Porto Alegre, in southern Brazil in 1976, Mauricio Dos Santos is an example of an athlete that has used his talents to receive a college education in United States.

As a soccer player, Mauricio Dos Santos was the young star for the Brazilian youth first division soccer team Sport Club Internacional. At the age of 21 he was offered a full soccer scholarship and enrolled as an international student-athlete in the United States.

Mauricio Dos Santos attended Clayton University in Georgia, Mid-Continent University in Kentucky and, Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he received a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration. Among his many accomplishments, Mauricio Dos Santos was the NAIA National top scorer with 27 goals (2003).

After College, Mauricio Dos Santos moved to Chicago to work as a full time soccer coach and senior clinician with both the Soccer Made in America Inc. and Chicago Blast Soccer Club.

Upon his returned to Brazil, Mauricio Dos Santos combined his athletic experience, coaching background and business success to create the company SportExchange.com.br

Mauricio Dos Santos has traveled around Brazil offering seminars on the topic of the demand for Brazilian athletes in US college and university athletic programs and how to acquire scholarships from these schools. Through it’s relationships with sports organizations; SportExchange.com.br has earned a national reputation in Brazil.

His extensive experience in sports and the U.S. recruiting process make him uniquely qualified as a “Brazilian Talent Finder”. Using his experience with the international student-athlete recruiting process, Mauricio Dos Santos created SportExchange.com.br to help Brazilian athletes and US college coaches fulfill their dreams.