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| Full name | Juan Silveira dos Santos[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1979-02-01)1 February 1979 (age 47)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Centre-back | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1989–1996 | Flamengo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1996–2002 | Flamengo | 75 | (5) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2002–2007 | Bayer Leverkusen | 139 | (10) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2012 | Roma | 118 | (9) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2015 | Internacional | 69 | (4) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2019 | Flamengo | 27 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 428 | (28) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1995–1996 | Brazil U17 | 6 | (2) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1997–1999 | Brazil U20 | 5 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2010 | Brazil | 79 | (7) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2024 | Flamengo (technical manager) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2024– | Brazil (coordinator) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Juan Silveira dos Santos (Portuguese pronunciation:[ʁuˈɐ̃silˈvejɾɐdusˈsɐ̃tus]; born 1 February 1979), commonly known asJuan, is a Brazilian former professionalfootballer who played as acentre-back. He currently works asBrasil national football team assistant underCarlo Ancelotti.[2]
Having begun his career withFlamengo, he spent a decade playing in Europe[3] in service ofBayer Leverkusen andRoma before returning to Brazil withInternacional in 2012.
Juan earned 79 caps and scored seven international goals for Brazil.[4] He represented the nation at twoFIFA World Cups, threeFIFA Confederations Cups and threeCopa América tournaments, winning two apiece of the latter two events.
Born inRio de Janeiro, Juan played for six years forFlamengo in Brazil. In 2002, he moved toBayer Leverkusen. He played five years in Germany scoring ten goals for Bayer. In 2007, he moved toRoma for €6.3 million.[5]
Juan played forRoma between 2007 and 2012. In all competitions for Roma he scored 11 goals in more than 140 appearances. With Roma he won one Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana. He was a first-choice centre-back for Roma, and wore the number four jersey. Juan scored his first goal for Roma againstReggina on 16 September 2007.
In the 2011–12 season, he usually played alongsideGabriel Heinze. He scored his seventh goal for Roma in a 5–1 win over Cesena on 21 January 2012. He scored again in Roma's 4–2 lossCagliari in Sardinia, followed by his third goal of the season, and the opening goal, in Roma's 4–0 demolition of Internazionale at theStadio Olimpico. He scored nine goals for Roma during his time there.
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On 16 July 2012, Roma and Juan agreed to cancel his contract by mutual consent, which was set to end on 30 June 2013.[6] On the same day, Juan signed a two-year contract with the club of Porto AlegreInternacional, with a one-year option.
On 11 November 2015, Juan and Internacional agreed to cancel his contract by mutual consent, almost a month later on 8 December 2015, Juan confirmed his return to Flamengo.
Juan announced his retirement after winning the2019 Campeonato Carioca and played his farewell match on 27 April 2019, in Flamengo's 3–1 win overCruzeiro.[7]
Juan played on Brazil'sCopa América-winning teams in2004 and2007, also winning theFIFA Confederations Cup in2005 and2009. He scored the winning goal in thepenalty shootout at the end of the2004 Copa América final againstArgentina inLima.[8] In the quarter-finals of the same competition in 2007, he opened the scoring in a 6–1 thrashing ofChile inPuerto La Cruz.[9]
On 28 June 2010, Juan scored the first goal against Chile with a headed finish from a corner as Brazil won 3–0 to advance to thequarter-finals of the2010 FIFA World Cup.[10]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Flamengo | 1996 | Série A | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 11 | 0 | |
| 1997 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | – | 20 | 3 | |||
| 1998 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | – | 16 | 0 | |||
| 1999 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | – | 14 | 2 | |||
| 2000 | 15 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 2 | – | 26 | 3 | |||
| 2001 | 18 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 5 | – | 33 | 7 | |||
| 2002 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | 3 | 0 | |||
| Total | 75 | 5 | 18 | 2 | 20 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 113 | 15 | ||
| Bayer Leverkusen | 2002–03 | Bundesliga | 24 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | – | 29 | 4 | |
| 2003–04 | 30 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 31 | 2 | |||
| 2004–05 | 27 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 2 | – | 39 | 3 | |||
| 2005–06 | 30 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 32 | 3 | |||
| 2006–07 | 28 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | – | 39 | 4 | |||
| Total | 139 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 23 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 170 | 16 | ||
| Roma | 2007–08 | Serie A | 22 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | – | 31 | 3 | |
| 2008–09 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | – | 26 | 3 | |||
| 2009–10 | 29 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | – | 36 | 0 | |||
| 2010–11 | 31 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | 37 | 2 | |||
| 2011–12 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 16 | 3 | |||
| Total | 118 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 146 | 11 | ||
| Internacional | 2012 | Série A | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 6 | 1 | ||
| 2013 | 32 | 3 | 7 | 0 | – | 13[a] | 2 | 52 | 5 | |||
| 2014 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 8[a] | 0 | 31 | 0 | |||
| 2015 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8[b] | 1 | 7[a] | 1 | 25 | 2 | ||
| Total | 69 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 28 | 3 | 114 | 8 | ||
| Flamengo | 2016 | Série A | 9 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3[c] | 0 | 16[d] | 0 | 32 | 0 |
| 2017 | 13 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 10[e] | 2 | 6[f] | 1 | 35 | 3 | ||
| 2018 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5[b] | 0 | 5[g] | 0 | 14 | 0 | ||
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1[g] | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Total | 27 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 18 | 2 | 28 | 1 | 83 | 3 | ||
| Career total | 428 | 28 | 53 | 3 | 89 | 18 | 56 | 4 | 626 | 53 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil[11] | 2001 | 7 | 0 |
| 2002 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2003 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2004 | 13 | 1 | |
| 2005 | 9 | 1 | |
| 2006 | 11 | 0 | |
| 2007 | 15 | 2 | |
| 2008 | 5 | 0 | |
| 2009 | 5 | 2 | |
| 2010 | 7 | 1 | |
| Total | 79 | 7 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 July 2004 | Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi,Arequipa, Peru |  Costa Rica | 2–0 | 4–1 | 2004 Copa América |
| 2 | 4 September 2005 | Estádio Mané Garrincha,Brasília, Brazil |  Chile | 1–0 | 5–0 | 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying |
| 3 | 24 March 2007 | Ullevi,Gothenburg, Sweden | Chile | 4–0 | 4–0 | Friendly |
| 4 | 7 July 2007 | Estadio Olímpico Luis Ramos,Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela | Chile | 1–0 | 6–1 | 2007 Copa América |
| 5 | 6 June 2009 | Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay |  Uruguay | 2–0 | 4–0 | 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying |
| 6 | 15 June 2009 | Free State Stadium,Bloemfontein, South Africa |  Egypt | 3–1 | 4–3 | 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup |
| 7 | 28 June 2010 | Ellis Park Stadium,Johannesburg, South Africa | Chile | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2010 FIFA World Cup |
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