Xalo Almeida starts on Paintball in 1990 when paintball fever hit Brasil and there were fields opening everywhere.
In Brasil he played for teams: Equipe Samurai, Insane, Rapinas and Coiotes Dirty.
In 2003 he played his first PSP World Cup, in Orlando, where he saw how paintball really is played, watching teams he had previously only heard of. That experience changed his world, as he decided to give his all to achieve one day be playing at the top level.
In 2004 Xalo heard that a certain team was having open tryouts, and he decided to take on that challenge with his buddy Saulo. So they both traveled halway around the world to tryout for the best international team in the world, the Russian Legion. After a few weeks, it was clear to the Russians that Xalo was a dedicated player with tremendous heart and potencial, so he was signed to play with the Pro Russian Legion squad.
Xalo played the entire 2004 season with the RL, traveling around the globe for tournaments while living and practicing in Moscow, alongside Dan Maskell and Mikko Huttunen.
That 2004 squad achieved some amazing things, such as being the first non american team to win a PRO event in American soil, something that to this day hasn't been done again by any other foreign team.
Since then Xalo has been able to make a living on paintbal, and alongside his friend Andre "Speedy" Lopes (ex-Aftershock, Miami Raiders) they are the only brazilian pro paintballers.
At the end of the 2004 season Xalo left the RL and moved to North Carolina to play with Baltimore Trauma, however due to contractual problems he was not able to play in the NXL for any team other than the Russian Legion.
At this point Xalo saw chances of playing at the top level getting more and more slim, until he met Doc Drapper that is. Xalo met Doc, from Doc's Raiders who invited him to join his team, where he's been for 2 seasons now.
While Xalo is not training with Doc's Raiders and playing events in the US he can be found in Brazil either playing with his Jungle Boyz, a team he personally trains and that is proving to be the best team in South America, or teaching paintball clinics throughout Brasil.