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
Position(s)	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)
Managerial career
1994–1997	Boavista (assistant)
1997	Boavista
2002–2003	Belenenses (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and 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.

Honours

Player

• Taça de Portugal: 1991–92
• Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 1992

External links

• Rui Casaca at footballzz.co.uk
• Rui Casaca manager stats at footballzz.co.uk
• Rui Casaca profile at ForaDeJogo
• Rui Casaca manager stats at ForaDeJogo