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Gile Ribeiro

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu coach based in Curitiba, founder of Gile Ribeiro Brothers and a sixth-degree black belt under Muzio de Angelis.

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Gile Ribeiro is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu coach based in Curitiba, in the southern state of Paraná. He holds a black belt under Muzio de Angelis and is listed by his academy today as a sixth-degree black belt. He founded the Gile Ribeiro Brothers school in Curitiba in 1999. By October 2015, it had grown into a network of branches across Paraná and Minas Gerais, with outposts as far as New York, led by black belt Alessandro Martins, and South Korea, led by brown belt Lixa Shin. That December, at the team's year-end evaluation and graduation event, 800 athletes turned out from the Curitiba-area branches alone — a turnout Ribeiro pointed to as proof of the group's growth and unity. Notable competitors have trained under him, including Julio Migliorini, Célio Mineiro, Diego Marlon, Alessandro Silva, and Alberto Feitosa. His clearest tie to the bigger stages of mixed martial arts runs through Wagner "Galeto" Campos, a Curitiba-born fighter who trained under Ribeiro exclusively from white belt to black belt and competed under the Gile Ribeiro Brothers banner; Ribeiro has also coached UFC fighter Karine "Killer". In January 2019, that coaching record was recognized with the "Treinador do ano" (Coach of the Year) title at the sixth Prêmio Osvaldo Páqueta in Curitiba, an award show known informally as Brazil's national MMA Oscars, honoring the best of Brazilian MMA in 2018. The Gile Ribeiro Brothers team has also run a community jiu-jitsu program for underprivileged children in Curitiba and the surrounding metropolitan region since at least 2010, teaching more than 100 children and covering the costs itself through the team's own tournament entry fees rather than outside funding. Five years later, the program — by then known as Instituto GR — was still running.

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