Júnior Baiano
Personal information
Full name Raimundo Ferreira Ramos Júnior
Date of birth (1970-03-14) 14 March 1970
Place of birth Feira de Santana, Brazil
Height 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)[1]
Position(s) Centre-back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989–1993 Flamengo 40 (2)
1994–1995 São Paulo 17 (6)
1995–1996 Werder Bremen 32 (2)
1996–1998 Flamengo 31 (6)
1998–1999 Palmeiras 22 (6)
2000–2001 Vasco da Gama 15 (1)
2002 Shanghai Shenhua 5 (0)
2002–2003 Internacional 3 (0)
2004–2005 Flamengo 42 (8)
2006–2007 América-RJ 0 (0)
2007–2008 Brasiliense 46 (3)
2009 Volta Redonda 0 (0)
2009 Miami FC 7 (0)
Total 260 (26)
International career
1997–1998 Brazil 25 (2)
Managerial career
2012 Santa Helena
2019 Itumbiara
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Raimundo Ferreira Ramos Júnior (born 14 March 1970), known as Júnior or Júnior Baiano as he comes from the state of Bahia, is a former Brazilian professional footballer who played as a centre-back.[2]

Club career

Born in Feira de Santana, Júnior began his career in the late 1980s, playing with Flamengo in the Campeonato Brasileiro. Over the course of the next 15 years, his career took him to Germany, China and all over Brazil. In Germany, he is best known for the ten-match ban that he received after punching an opponent in a match, which caused his club Werder Bremen to cancel his contract.[3] He won the Campeonato Carioca twice in two stints with Flamengo in 1991 and 2004, as well as the Copa do Brasil and the Campeonato Brasileiro. He also won the Copa CONMEBOL and the Recopa Sul-Americana with São Paulo in 1994 and the Copa Libertadores with Palmeiras in 1999.

Júnior retired at the end of 2005 but in December 2006, he signed a professional contract with América (RJ) to save the club from relegation in the Campeonato Carioca in the beginning of 2007. He left for Brasiliense in the Série B that same year.

After a brief stint with Volta Redonda in 2009, Júnior went to Miami FC of the USL First Division, which is coached by his former Brazilian national teammate Zinho.

International career

Júnior Baiano earned 25 caps with the Brazil national team in 1997 and 1998, and was a member of the Brazil squad which took part in the 1998 World Cup, the 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup, and which won the 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup. During the 1998 World Cup Baiano played a key role in the Brazil squad which reached the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final in Paris, although in the match against Norway which Brazil lost 2–1, he lost a "trial of strength" with Tore André Flo immediately before the striker hit the ball beyond the reach of Claudio Taffarel to equalize, and also fouled the same player a few minutes later, which resulted in the awarding of a penalty kick, from which the Norwegians scored the decisive goal.[4]

Career statistics

Scores and results list Brazil's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Júnior Baiano goal.
List of international goals scored by Júnior Baiano
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
113 August 1997Nagai Stadium, Osaka, Japan Japan3–03–0Friendly
216 December 1997King Fahd II Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Mexico3–13–21997 FIFA Confederations Cup

Honours

Flamengo
São Paulo
Palmeiras
Vasco da Gama
Internacional
Shanghai Shenhua
Brasiliense

Brazil

Individual

References

  1. ↑ "Júnior Baiano".
  2. ↑ "Júnior Baiano". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
  3. ↑ Martin, Andrew (18 September 1996). "Samba beatings ruining game". The Independent. London. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  4. ↑ "Júnior Baiano". FIFA. Archived from the original on 10 March 2008. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
  5. ↑ "Bundesliga Historie 1985/96" (in German). kicker.
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