Júlio César (football player, 1963)

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Júlio César
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Júlio César at the 10th Day of Legends 2014
Personnel
Surname Júlio César da Silva
birthday March 8, 1963
place of birth Bauru ,  Brazil
size 190 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
0000-1978 Noroeste Bauru
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1979-1986 Guarani FC
1986-1987 Stade Brest 32 0(1)
1987-1990 HSC Montpellier 93 (10)
1990-1994 Juventus Turin 89 0(3)
1994-1999 Borussia Dortmund 80 0(7)
1998 →  Botafogo FR  (loan) 16 0(1)
1999 →  Panathinaikos Athens  (loan) 3 0(0)
1999-2000 Werder Bremen 12 0(0)
2001 Rio Branco EC
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1986-1993 Brazil 14 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Júlio César , full name Júlio César da Silva (born March 8, 1963 in Bauru ), is a former Brazilian football player . The defender was active in Europe between 1986 and 2000 and won one European Cup each with Juventus Turin ( 1993 ) and Borussia Dortmund ( 1997 ). At BVB he was German champion twice ( 1995 , 1996 ). He ended his career in Brazil in 2001.

Júlio César took part with the Brazilian national team in the 1986 World Cup and the 1987 Copa America . He came to a total of 14 missions.

Career

In the club

Beginnings and move to Europe (1979–1987)

Júlio César grew up in the slums of his hometown of Bauru . From there he came to the then reigning national champion Guarani FC in 1979 . With the team from Campinas he ended up in 16th place twice at the beginning and was thus relegated in the end. But after just one season in the Série B direct promotion to the successful Series A . There he was promptly third with Guarani, but after the departure of Careca , the team had to start again in the second division. There finally succeeded again the direct promotion to the first division, in which Guarani consequently only reached 15th place. In Júlio César's last season played in the top half of the table with, reaching at the end of the season - despite Júlio César's departure in the summer - the final of the Brazilian Championship, which after penalties against Sao Paulo was lost. During the 1986 World Cup , some European clubs became aware of him and he was signed by Stade Brest from France at the start of the 1986 season . There he formed the central defense together with the Argentine world champion José Luis Brown and was eighth in Division 1 with Brest . For the next season, Júlio César moved within the league to the newly promoted HSC Montpellier .

HSC Montpellier (1987–1990)

In Montpellier, Júlio César was seeded from the start and formed the back four with Franck Lucchesi , Nenad Stojković and Pascal Baills . The team started the season 1987/88 weak at first , but improved more and more over the course of the season and ultimately came in third. Júlio César only missed one game and scored six times in the championship and cup. The league placement from the previous season allowed Montpellier to participate in the UEFA Cup and met Benfica Lisbon in the first round . However, after the first and second leg, the French were beaten 6-1. As a result, things went worse in the league than in the previous year and Montpellier was ninth in the final standings. The Brazilian dropped out twelve times and had to fight with changing partners in central defense. The 1989/90 season was his last in the south of France and was similarly disappointing in the league as last year. Despite newcomers like Daniel Xuereb or Éric Cantona , the team was only thirteenth in the league. Júlio César, who played in central defense at the side of captain Laurent Blanc this season, played more often and also scored three goals, but was unable to prevent the club's steady decline in the league. The team was very successful in the cup and won it after extra time in the final against RC Paris with 2-1.

Juventus Turin (1990-1994)

When Juventus strengthened the squad for a lot of money after the 1990 World Cup , Júlio César was brought to the Piedmontese capital alongside stars like Roberto Baggio and Thomas Häßler . But despite such a millionaires ensemble, Juve only finished seventh in Serie A and thus even missed qualification for an international competition. Turin could have achieved this by winning the European Cup Winners' Cup , but there the team failed in the semifinals at FC Barcelona . In the new season, Turin continued to invest enormous sums of money and also signed a new coach in Giovanni Trapattoni . Under the direction of Trapattoni, the team was runner-up behind AC Milan and returned to international competition after a one-year break. In the following season's UEFA Cup , the team reached the final after just one defeat in ten games. The final opponent was Júlio César's future employer Borussia Dortmund . Against this, Turin fell behind relatively quickly in the first leg, but were then able to turn the game around and - after they had also won the second leg - won the UEFA Cup. In the league, however, the old lady was only fourth in the final table and had to give AC Milan the scudetto again . The following season would be Júlio César's last in Turin; Also this time he just missed winning the Italian championship with Juventus as second in the table. After the season he moved to Borussia Dortmund together with Andreas Möller .

Borussia Dortmund (1994-1998)

Due to initial difficulties, Júlio César only made his debut for Borussia against Bayer Leverkusen on the 5th matchday of the 1994/95 season . After that, he only missed one game due to a yellow card suspension and otherwise formed the Dortmund defense chain for long stretches of the season together with Bodo Schmidt and Libero Matthias Sammer . They defended the Dortmund goal quite successfully and conceded the fewest in the league with a total of 33 goals. In the final table, Dortmund - one point ahead of Werder Bremen - was in first place and Júlio César won a national championship for the first time. Internationally, too, things went well for BVB, who only failed in the UEFA Cup in the semi-finals to Juventus Turin. As the defending champion, he got off to a rather bumpy start with BVB next season, but over time the team recovered and became autumn champions ahead of Bayern Munich . Júlio César also had a new defender at his side in Jürgen Kohler - who had played with him at Juve - in place of Bodo Schmidt. With Kohler and Júlio César in central defense, Borussia received more goals than in the previous season, but were German champions for the second time in a row on matchday 33. During the season, Júlio César also played his first season in the Champions League with BVB and failed here in the quarter-finals against last year's winner Ajax Amsterdam . The following year, however, he was more successful with Borussia in the premier class and reached the final in Munich after victories against AJ Auxerre and Manchester United . In the sold-out Olympic Stadium , the team met Juventus Turin for the fifth time in three years. BVB won the final 3-1 despite the absence of Júlio César. But Júlio César not only missed the final against Turin, but also came to fewer and fewer appearances at BVB. That is why, after Nevio Scala took over the coaching position, he was loaned abroad and then came back to Borussia, but was no longer a big athlete.

End of career (1998-2001)

In between, Júlio César was loaned to Brazil to Botafogo FR and to Greece to Panathinaikos Athens . Then he went to Werder Bremen , who urgently needed a central defender due to serious injury concerns. At the Weser , he signed a performance-related one-year contract and consequently ran twelve times for the Werder team. The following year he ended his career at Rio Branco EC in Brazil.

In the national team

Júlio César made his debut in the Seleção in 1986 - under the direction of Telê Santana  - in a friendly against the GDR . Without further selection games, he was appointed to the squad for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico . As a regular player he was group winner with the Brazilians and thus played against Poland in the round of 16 . The Eastern Europeans were defeated 4-0 and the quarter-finals against France followed . In this game the score was 1: 1 after regular time and added time. So it came to the penalty shootout, in which Júlio César became a tragic hero, as he missed the last penalty of the Brazilians. Nevertheless, he was proposed for the award of the "Golden Ball" for the best player of the tournament. However, after the journalists' election, he came last. A year and two friendlies later, the Copa America followed in Argentina . The continental championship ended quickly for the Brazilians as they were eliminated in the group stage. Júlio César only played the last group game against Chile (0: 4). After this debacle, he completed three more international matches before playing his last two selection games at the US Cup in 1993 against the USA and Germany .

titles and achievements

HSC Montpellier

Juventus Turin

Borussia Dortmund

literature

Web links

Commons : Júlio César  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data sheets on rsssf.com
  2. ↑ Transfer report on spiegel-online.de
  3. ↑ Final result on rsssf.com
personal data
SURNAME Júlio César
ALTERNATIVE NAMES da Silva, Júlio César (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Bauru , Brazil