Alex Pisano was born on 10 January 2006 in Kasugai, Aichi, and rose through Nagoya Grampus' academy. A towering 195cm goalkeeper with dual Japanese-Italian heritage, he made his senior debut for Nagoya Grampus in the J.League Cup in 2024 as an 18-year-old, then established himself as a regular in 2025 with 16 J1 League appearances — a remarkable progression for a teenager.
In 2025 Pisano was part of the Japan squad that won both the J.League Cup with Nagoya Grampus and the EAFF E-1 Football Championship with the senior Japan team. He also represented Japan U-20 at the FIFA U-20 World Cup, played in the Tournoi Maurice-Revello, and earned a senior Japan A-team call-up — a remarkable trajectory at his age.
His combination of size, reflexes, and ball-playing comfort makes him an unusual prospect: very few Japanese-developed goalkeepers have come through with his physical profile. He has emerged as one of the most exciting young goalkeeping talents in Asian football.
A 195cm goalkeeper with the modern footwork and shot-stopping range that international football increasingly demands, Pisano is being closely watched as Japan considers its long-term goalkeeping succession plan after Eiji Kawashima and Daniel Schmidt. He is a future-of-Japan call-up in the senior set-up rather than a 2026 World Cup starter, but his development is one of the most-discussed in the Japanese game.