Rui Casaca
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Rui Manuel Magalhães Casaca | ||
| Date of birth | 18 October 1959 | ||
| Place of birth | Marco de Canaveses, Portugal | ||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1973–1979 | Braga | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1979–1980 | Merelinense | ||
| 1980–1982 | Valdevez | 21 | (6) |
| 1982–1984 | Rio Ave | 56 | (5) |
| 1984–1994 | Boavista | 249 | (13) |
| Total | 326 | (24) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1994–1997 | Boavista (assistant) | ||
| 1997 | Boavista | ||
| 2002–2003 | Belenenses (assistant) | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Rui Manuel Magalhães Casaca (born 18 October 1959) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder, and the current director of football at S.C. Braga.
Football career
Born in Marco de Canaveses, Porto District, Casaca started playing in the lower leagues with Merelinense F.C. and C.A. Valdevez, helping the latter team promote to the Segunda Liga in 1981. Starting in the following year and until his retirement, he competed solely in the Primeira Liga, with Rio Ave F.C. and Boavista FC.
In the 1985–86 season, Casaca scored a career-best four goals from 28 appearances to help Boavista finish in fifth position, with the subsequent qualification to the UEFA Cup. He retired in June 1994 at the age of 34, amassing top division totals of 305 matches and 18 goals, and immediately joined his main club's coaching staff; in January 1997 he was named interim manager, collecting one point in his two games in charge.
From 1997 to 2006, Casaca acted as director of football of Boavista and C.F. Os Belenenses. On 31 July 2007, in the same predicament, he joined S.C. Braga.[1]
Honours
Player
References
- ↑ "Rui Casaca é o novo director para o futebol" [Rui Casaca is the new director of football] (in Portuguese). Record. 31 July 2007. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
External links
- Rui Casaca at thefinalball.com
- Rui Casaca manager stats at thefinalball.com
- Rui Casaca profile at ForaDeJogo
- Rui Casaca manager stats at ForaDeJogo