| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Júlio Cernadas Pereira | ||
| Date of birth | (1929-01-13)13 January 1929 | ||
| Place of birth | Lourenço Marques,Mozambique | ||
| Date of death | 11 October 2007(2007-10-11) (aged 78) | ||
| Place of death | Lisbon, Portugal | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| ?–1949 | Sporting Lourenço Marques | ||
| 1949–1958 | Sporting CP | 145 | (6) |
| International career | |||
| 1952–1956 | Portugal | 6 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1961–1963 | Sporting CP | ||
| 1964–1965 | Sporting CP | ||
| 1967–1968 | Vitória Guimarães | ||
| 1969–1972 | Académica | ||
| 1973–1974 | Barreirense | ||
| 1975–1976 | Sporting CP | ||
| 1976–1979 | Académica | ||
| 1977–1978 | Portugal | ||
| 1979–1980 | Belenenses | ||
| 1980–1982 | Portugal | ||
| 1982–1983 | Braga | ||
| 1987–1989 | Portugal | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Júlio Cernadas Pereira (13 January 1929 – 11 October 2007), commonly known asJuca, was a Portuguesefootballmidfielder and coach. Most of his career was associated withSporting CP, as both player and manager.
The son ofPortuguese parents who had settled inMozambique, Juca was born inLourenço Marques, and started playing professionally with localSporting de Lourenço Marques as agoalkeeper. In 1949 he went to Portugal and joinedSporting CP, where he remained for nine years until his retirement at the age of 29 due to a knee injury, helping them win fivePrimeira Liga championships and the 1954domestic cup.
During nearly four years, Juca earned sixcaps forPortugal. His first game was a 1–1 draw withAustria on 23 November 1952 in afriendly match inPorto, and his last appearance was in another exhibition game, againstHungary (9 June 1956 inLisbon, same result).
Shortly after retiring in 1960, Juca started managing, his first job being with main club Sporting's under-19. He was promoted to head coach of the first team the following year, being in charge for three-and-a-half of the following five years and winning the1962 and1966 leagues (he was only in charge for four matches in the latter campaign however) as well as the 1963 Portuguese Cup.
After spending the following years with three clubs, mainlyAcadémica de Coimbra, and some periods of inactivity, Juca returned to Sporting for1975–76, being fired after the team could only rank in fifth position, 12 points behind championsS.L. Benfica.
In his second spell with theCoimbra side, Juca accumulated and worked for the first time as coach of the Portugal national team – in 1968 he had already worked inOtto Glória's staff[1]– winning three games during the1978 FIFA World Cupqualifiers and finishing second toPoland in its group, but faring worse in the1982 edition (fourth position);[2] both campaigns ended in failure to reach the final stages.
Juca was again in charge of the national team for the1990 World Cup qualification, missing it by just two points in the favour ofCzechoslovakia. After being dismissed he returned to Sporting, working until 2004 asdirector of football and youth coordinator. He died at the age of 78.
