Rui Casaca

Rui Casaca
Personal information
Full name Rui Manuel Magalhães Casaca
Date of birth (1959-10-18) 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)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

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

  1. ↑ "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.

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