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Antônio Augusto Ribeiro Reis Júnior ( give birth 30 January 1975 ), normally known as Juninho Pernambucano or plainly Juninho, [ note 1 ] is a brazilian erstwhile professional football player who is the sporting film director of french club Olympique Lyonnais. [ 3 ] A dead-ball specialist noted for his flex rid kicks, in particular the knuckleball proficiency which he developed, [ 4 ] Juninho holds the read for the highest count of goals scored through free kicks and he is considered by many to be the greatest free kick-taker of all time. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Juninho began his professional career in 1993 with brazilian club Sport do Recife. Two years former he joined Vasco district attorney Gama where he played over 100 matches and won six titles. In 2001, he joined Ligue 1 side Olympique Lyonnais where he played for the future eight years, winning seven consecutive league titles and scoring 100 goals in 343 official appearances for the club. [ 9 ] Following his passing from Lyon in 2009, Juninho played in Qatar with Al-Gharafa and in the United States with New York Red Bulls. The latter stint was wedged between two spells second at Vasco, where he ultimately retired in 2013. Having made his international introduction in 1999, Juninho played 40 games for the brazilian national team and scored six goals. He represented Brazil at the 2001 Copa América and was part of the team which won the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup before retiring from international football after the 2006 World Cup. From 2013 to 2018, Juninho was a football commentator for brazilian sports network Rede Globo .

Club career [edit ]

Sport Recife [edit ]

Born in Recife, Juninho started his professional career at Sport Recife and promptly established himself as a rising star in brazilian football. He won two regional titles with the club. According to Juninho, it was as a 13-year-old that he started to take free-kicks and began to develop his knuckleball proficiency, telling FourFourTwo magazine : “ I started by copying free-kicks taken by Marcelinho, who played for Corinthians. He was one of my inspirations, and the first player I had ever seen hit the ball fountainhead on and make it dance in the vent. Didi, who won the World Cup with Brazil in 1958 and 1962, was doing it back then, excessively. Everyone since has fair been tweaking the formula. ” [ 10 ] It was when he got to France that Juninho says he mastered it. [ 10 ]

Vasco district attorney Gama [edit ]

Juninho Pernambucano joined Vasco district attorney Gama in 1995. [ 11 ] He won several trophies during his first stretch with the club, including the brazilian Championship in 1997 and 2000, the Copa Libertadores in 1998, the Copa Mercosur in 2000, [ 12 ] a well as the 2000 brazilian Silver Ball award as one of the best brazilian midfielders of the season. [ 13 ] At that time, he was playing with Romário, Edmundo, and Juninho Paulista, and he became a favorite of the Vasco fans. [ 14 ] Since that clock he has been known as Reizinho de São Januário ( The Little King of São Januário ), [ 6 ] a reference book to Vasco da Gama ‘s stadium, arsenic well as Reizinho da Colina ( The Little King of the Hill ). [ 11 ] [ 15 ] In 2001, the player won a preliminary injunction against Vasco district attorney Gama, after which he became a release agent. [ 16 ] Although he left Vasco for Lyon after a discriminative contend, he is placid considered a favorite of Vasco fans. [ 15 ] Juninho has been cited in a classic chorus whistle by the fans remembering his free-kick goal against River Plate [ 15 ] at River Plate Stadium, during the 1998 Libertadores which helped the club reach the finals against Barcelona de Guayaquil, which they won. [ 17 ] Juninho played 295 games for Vasco from 1995 to 2001. [ 18 ]

Olympique Lyonnais [edit ]

Juninho during his clock with Lyon in 2006 In 2001, Juninho moved abroad to play for french club Olympique Lyonnais. Before his arrival at Lyon, the club had never won the french championship. [ 19 ] Starting out in his first season at the clubhouse, Olympique Lyonnais won seven league titles in a row ; [ 6 ] [ 19 ] along with his former Lyon teammates Grégory Coupet and Sidney Govou, he holds the record for most Ligue 1 titles won ( seven ), along with Hervé Revelli and Jean-Michel Larqué of Saint-Étienne, equally well as Thiago Silva and Marco Verratti of Paris Saint–Germain. [ 20 ] At Lyon, Juninho made himself particularly noted for his accurate, brawny and varied sic pieces. a good as much being ranked the world ‘s greatest free kick exponent, Juninho was a celebrated passer, providing many assists, and his leadership abilities prompted Lyon coach Gérard Houllier to name him team master. [ 21 ] Juninho Pernambucano scored 100 goals while at Lyon. [ 22 ] Forty-four of those goals were scored from free-kicks, [ 22 ] the last of which was a strike from long outdistance against Olympique de Marseille. [ 23 ] He scored his hundredth finish on his last bet on for Lyon, through a punishment recoil against Caen. [ 24 ] Juninho was besides a prolific goalscorer in the Champions League, and he matched Sonny Anderson as the baseball club ‘s top goalscorer in european competitions with 16 goals, on a match against Steaua Bucharest in November 2008. [ 25 ] He late became Lyon ‘s top goalscorer in the Champions League with 18 goals, [ 22 ] while reaching three quarter-finals in the contest. [ 22 ] On 26 May 2009, Lyon chair Jean-Michel Aulas announced in a crush conference that the club had accepted Juninho ‘s request to leave Lyon at the goal of the season as a complimentary agent, despite the fact that the player inactive had a class left in his sign. [ 19 ] [ 22 ] During the crusade conference, Juninho sat next to Aulas and left without saying a word. [ 26 ]
On 17 June 2009, Juninho signed a €2.5 million, biennial contract with Qatari golf club Al-Gharafa. [ 27 ] In his first season with the golf club, Juninho captained the team to their one-seventh league deed and wins in the Qatari Stars Cup and Qatar Crown Prince Cup, completing the soprano. He finished the season with Player of the year respect from the Qatar Football Association. Juninho played 66 games for Al-Gharafa and scored 25 goals .

hark back to Vasco district attorney Gama [edit ]

On 27 April 2011, Juninho rejoined his erstwhile club Vasco district attorney Gama. He scored his first gear goal for them in his first gear game back, via a freekick against Corinthians. He scored another 2 free kicks and a punishment during the course of the brazilian exceed flight season. On 28 March 2012, he played and scored a finish for a 4–1 tip in Edmundo ‘s farewell game against Barcelona Sporting Club. Vasco went on to win this game 9–1. [ 28 ] Juninho then scored a trademark release kick against Esporte Clube Bahia in the fourth round of the Campeonato Brasileiro ; that goal was to be his 16th since returning to Vasco from Al-Gharafa. In July 2012, Juninho extended his compress with Vasco for 6 months. On 18 July 2012, he made his 350th appearance for the club against São Paulo FC. In August 2012 he played against his youth team Sport Club do Recife and scored a free kick goal, which was his one-fourth goal from rid kicks in Campeonato Brasileiro Série A 2012 .

New York Red Bulls [edit ]

On 17 December 2012, Juninho signed for Major League Soccer team New York Red Bulls. [ 14 ] [ 29 ] He made his beginning appearance for the team on a friendly equal against Malmö, in which he was a newcomer. [ 30 ] On 3 March 2013 Juninho made his official debut for Red Bulls, playing the full time in a 3–3 string against Portland Timbers. [ 31 ] On 3 July 2013 NY Red Bulls announced that they reached an agreement with Juninho for the cancelation of his shrink. [ 32 ] The midfielder featured in 13 games for the New York Red Bulls, providing the team with four assists. [ 33 ]

third least sandpiper with Vasco district attorney Gama and retirement [edit ]

On 11 July 2013, Vasco da Gama announced Juninho ‘s return to the club. [ 34 ] The musician scored and assisted in his one-third debut for Vasco, in a 3–1 victory against rivals Fluminense. [ 35 ] He scored his first home goal of the season against Criciúma with a 32-metre spare kick, [ 23 ] besides assisting Edmílson for the third finish of the game. [ 36 ] He played his third game for Vasco district attorney Gama against another equal team Botafogo, setting up Andre for Vasco ‘s first goal, in a 3–2 get the better of. He played his sixth game against Grêmio and made another assist. It was his fourth help in Campeonato Brasileiro. Juninho made his fifth serve against Sport Club Corinthians Paulista ; the game ended in a 1–1 draw. He played his sixteenth game against Vasco rivals Botafogo and made two assists ; the game ended with a 2–2 draw after Botafogo had led 2–0. Juninho played 16 games for Vasco in his third gear least sandpiper with the golf club, scoring 2 goals and making 7 assists in the Campeonato Brasileiro. He retired from playing professional football on 2 February 2014. [ 12 ] During his years at Vasco district attorney Gama, Juninho won six titles : the brazilian Championship in 1997 and 2000, the Campeonato Carioca in 1998, the Rio-São Paulo Tournament in 1999, the Copa Libertadores in 1998, and the Copa Mercosur in 2000. [ 12 ] He played in 393 games in sum for the club, scoring 76 goals. [ 17 ] Following his retirement, Juninho worked as a football observer for brazilian sports network Rede Globo, a stint that ended up in 2018. [ 37 ] [ 38 ]

International career [edit ]

On 7 September 1999, Juninho Pernambucano played two top-level matches in two unlike countries in the same day. He represented his state in the second half of the friendly equal between Brazil and Argentina in Porto Alegre, which Brazil won 4–2, playing about fifteen minutes. In hurt of a delay flight to Montevideo, he managed to arrive in Uruguay in clock time to feature in the second half of the Copa Mercosur equal between Vasco and Nacional. He took contribution at the 2001 Copa América with Brazil. Although Juninho had a period of elongated domestic success during the 2000s, that contributed to him being considered one of the best brazilian players in the world at the time, he was not selected for the brazilian team that featured in the 2002 FIFA World Cup and in the 2004 Copa América missing both because of a recurring stifle injury. Brazil would win both tournaments. He was however a member of the Brazil team that won the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup. In the 2006 FIFA World Cup Juninho scored against Japan in a group stage match. Following Brazil ‘s kill to eventual runner-up France in the quarter-finals of the tournament, he announced his external retirement, [ 39 ] so as to make way for younger talents coming through the ranks in Brazil, in order to build for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. [ 40 ]

Director career [edit ]

In May 2019, Juninho was appointed as the conductor of football of his erstwhile club Olympique Lyonnais. His first decision was to name former brazilian international teammate Sylvinho as the heading coach of the french Ligue 1 team. [ 41 ]

dash of act [edit ]

“ Say Juninho Pernambucano ‘s appoint, and the first reaction is probable to be, “ Great release kicks. ” He was the greatest and most versatile free-kick taker there has always been. Through his early years at Vasco district attorney Gama and his eight-year stretch at Lyon, Juninho developed his knuckleball proficiency. Whether 20, 30 or 40 yards from goal, the hits were often so pure, of such quality and ferocity, that goalkeepers merely could n’t do anything about them. ”

— Alex Richards in Bleacher Report ranking Juninho the greatest free-kick exponent of all time. [ 4 ]
Juninho has been described as “ one of the world ‘s most fear strikers of a electrostatic ball ”. [ 42 ] frequently ranked the greatest free-kick exponent, the method acting he used for long-range spare kicks is “ knuckle ball “, where the ball has about no spin motion during flight. [ 43 ] A successful knuckle ball will “ move ” or “ wobble ” in the air erratically, veering in a number of different directions ( making it difficult to save ) before finding the net. [ 4 ] He beginning made his name as a free kick taker with a long range strike against Bayern Munich in the 2003–04 Champions League group stage in which the ball dipped viciously at the end of travel that deceived Bayern keeper Oliver Kahn, who was considered one of the best goalkeepers in the universe at the time. [ 44 ]
Juninho lining up to take a release kick with Lyon Juninho has scored from free-kicks beyond 40 yards on a count of occasions : including against AC Ajaccio in 2006, against Barcelona in 2007, against OGC Nice in 2008, and a come to against Marseille in 2009, this being his final free kick goal for Lyon. even before Lyon, he displayed his talent at Vasco district attorney Gama, scoring several free recoil goals for the cabaret. Juninho has besides scored memorable free kick back goals for Brazil, the most celebrated being a curling stroke from 30 yards against Greece in the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup. Brazil would go on to win the match 3–0. besides, Juninho scored two free kicks against Nice in the 2008–09 season as Lyon were losing 2–0, with his moment from 48 yards out. [ 21 ] Juninho ‘s free-kick stylus has been adapted by several other players, such as Andrea Pirlo, [ 45 ] [ 46 ] Cristiano Ronaldo, [ 47 ] Didier Drogba, [ 48 ] and Gareth Bale. [ 49 ] The knuckle ball free-kick technique takes a significant come of skill to replicate and strike accurately. In total, Juninho scored at least 75 goals from directly free kicks throughout his master football career, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] which spanned from 1993 to 2013. [ 50 ]
Juninho ‘s Adidas boots in the Lyon museum

much like King Arthur had Excalibur and William Tell his crossbow, the tribe hero Juninho possessed his own particular weapon to save the day — his legendary free-kicks. No one hit a free-kick quite like Juninho. No one .Carl Anka of the BBC.[5]

A talented right-footed midfielder, beyond his qualities as a set-piece specialist, Juninho was besides known for his skill as an offensive playmaker, and for his ability to produce effective passes, which led him to getting assists on many of his teammates ‘ goals throughout his career. [ 47 ] He was besides gifted with effective technical foul ability and intelligence, deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as excellent imagination and casual range, and mighty and accurate strike ability from distance ; furthermore, he drew praise in the media for his doggedness, work-rate, composure under press, [ 51 ] solid character, and leadership, which saw him serve as club captain both at Lyon and Al-Gharafa. [ 47 ] [ 52 ] A versatile musician, although he normally played as an attacking midfielder, he was besides capable of playing as a winger or as a central midfielder. [ 46 ]

personal life [edit ]

Juninho is one of the few footballers to publicly speak out against racism in the area, american samoa well as criticize Jair Bolsonaro, the reactionary president of the united states of Brazil that assumed agency on 1 January 2019. [ 53 ] [ 54 ] [ 55 ] [ 56 ] [ 57 ] He is a father and a grandfather. [ 58 ]

career statistics [edit ]

baseball club [edit ]

International [edit ]

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team
Year
Apps
Goals

Brazil[61][62]

1999
4
0

2000
3
0

2001
4
0

2003
4
0

2004
10
0

2005
10
4

2006
5
2

Total
40
6

Scores and results list Brazil’s goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Juninho goal.[62]

Honours [edit ]

Sport Recife [ 51 ]
Vasco da Gama [ 63 ]
Lyon [ 63 ]
Al-Gharafa [ 63 ]
Brazil [ 63 ] [ 51 ]
Individual

References [edit ]

Notes

  1. ^[2] His nickname comes from a combination of the brazilian diminutive “ Juninho ”, which is normally applied to any person with the appoint “ Junior ”, and “ Pernambucano ”, meaning person born in the north-eastern brazilian department of state of Pernambuco

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