Juan Silveira dos Santos

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Juan
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Juan, 2015
Personnel
Surname Juan Silveira dos Santos
birthday 1st February 1979
place of birth Rio de Janeiro ,  Brazil
size 182 cm
position Central defense
Juniors
Years station
1989-1996 Flamengo Rio de Janeiro
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1996-2002 Flamengo Rio de Janeiro at least 77 0(6)
2002-2007 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 139 (10)
2007–2012 AS Roma 116 0(9)
2012-2015 Internacional Porto Alegre 97 0(7)
2016-2019 Flamengo Rio de Janeiro 49 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2001-2010 Brazil 82 0(8)
1 Only league games are given.

Juan (actually Juan Silveira dos Santos ; born February 1, 1979 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a former Brazilian soccer player . The trained central defender distinguished himself during his active time with an excellent header game , which he also knew how to exploit in offensive standard situations. During his professional career from 1996 to 2019, he worked for Flamengo Rio de Janeiro and Internacional Porto Alegre in his home country and in Europe for Bayer 04 Leverkusen and AS Roma .

Career

society

Juan played for the Brazilian club Flamengo Rio de Janeiro from 1996 to 2002 . There he celebrated his first successes: in 1999 the team won the Copa Mercosur and the state championship in Rio de Janeiro . In 2000 and 2001 the title of the national championship was successfully defended. After Juan had to wait for the breakthrough in his first four years at Flamengo, he made it in 2000. From then on, European scouts also had him on the notepads. In the summer of 2002 he finally moved to Germany to Bayer 04 Leverkusen . There the Brazilian met his compatriots Lúcio and França . Right away, Juan played his way into the club's starting line-up, and was to form a strong central defender duo with Lucio over the next two years.

Juan made his Bundesliga debut on August 10, 2002, the first matchday of the 2002/03 season, in a 1-1 draw at Energie Cottbus . It took until matchday 10 of the same season before he could score his first goal for Bayer. He scored a total of ten league goals for Bayer during his time in Germany. However, these years were not marked by major successes. In the first year you made it as table 15. only just about staying up, the following year the team finished third. After Leverkusen's game against 1. FC Nürnberg (final score 2: 0) on April 21, 2007, Juan announced that he would leave the club; In the summer of the previous year he had extended his contract to 2009.

On June 21 of the same year AS Roma announced the commitment of the Brazilian for 6.3 million euros , who was thus tied to the Italian club from July 1, 2007 with a four-year contract . On September 2, 2007, Juan made his Serie A debut when he was substituted on for Alberto Aquilani by coach Luciano Spalletti in the encounter with AC Siena in the 84th minute . At the end of his first season in Italy, Juan won the Coppa Italia with the capital club . In the 2-1 win against Inter Milan , the Brazilian was in the starting line-up and helped his team to success. In the same year, the team was runner-up in Italy, as was the case two years later.

In July 2012, after ten years in Europe, Juan moved back to Brazil, where he joined the Internacional Porto Alegre in Porto Alegre , the capital of the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul . With the club ever since he won the national championships of 2013, 2014 and 2015. In the national championship, he was third with 2,014 Internacional.

National team

Juan played his first international match for Brazil on July 15, 2001 against Peru during the 2001 Copa America . This was also the first international tournament for Juan in the dress of the Seleção . Before that, he went through some of the association's youth teams. Shortly before the soccer World Cup in Japan and South Korea in 2002 , he learned of his non-nomination for the team of the Brazilian national team, which could finish the tournament as world champion.

Only in 2003 did the then coach Carlos Alberto Parreira give him another chance in the run-up to the Confederations Cup . After all, the central defender was regularly appointed in the following years and never missed any major competitions. In 2004 he won the Copa America , the following year the Confederations Cup in Germany. While Juan was still a regular in 2004, he had to vacate the place for his club-mate Roque Júnior at the Confederations Cup . In 2007 Juan was able to defend the Copa America with Brazil, in the rematch of the 2004 final against Argentina he led the team as captain, replacing the suspended Gilberto Silva .

At the Confederations Cup in 2009 , he only made two appearances during the preliminary round. The team made it to the final and defeated the USA team there. In May 2010 Juan was appointed to the squad for the World Cup in South Africa through coach Carlos Dunga . There he formed the South American defensive team with Lucio and the full- backs Maicon and Michel Bastos . The defender never missed a minute of his team during the entire tournament but was eliminated with the team in the quarter-finals against the Netherlands . In the round of 16, he scored his only tournament goal in a 3-0 win against Chile .

successes

National team

society

Flamengo

AS Roma

SC Internacional

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chegou a hora ; flamengo.com.br, Portuguese, April 27, 2019, accessed May 6, 2019
  2. ↑ http://www.leverkusen.com/whoiswho/whoiswho.php4?view=Juan
  3. ↑ Match statistics: FC Energie Cottbus - Bayer Leverkusen 1: 1 (0: 0) on fussballdaten.de
  4. ↑ Match statistics: Hertha BSC - Bayer Leverkusen 1: 1 (1: 0) on fussballdaten.de
  5. ↑ Juan extends prematurely to leverkusen.com
  6. ↑ Juan changes from Leverkusen to AS Roma  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) on June 22, 2007 on fussball-blabla.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fussball-blabla.de
  7. ↑ Inter Contrata zagueiro Juan por dois anos
  8. ↑ Match statistics: Brazil - Peru 2-0 on weltfussball.de
personal data
SURNAME Silveira dos Santos, Juan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Juan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 1st February 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro , Brazil