Manuel Cajuda
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Manuel Ventura Cajuda de Sousa | ||
| Date of birth | 27 June 1951 | ||
| Place of birth | Olhão, Portugal | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1967–1969 | Olhanense | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1970–1971 | Sambrasense | ||
| 1971–1972 | Olhanense | ||
| 1972–1973 | Sambrasense | ||
| 1975–1976 | Olhanense | 29 | (1) |
| 1976–1983 | Farense | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1984 | Farense | ||
| 1987–1988 | Portimonense | ||
| 1988–1989 | Olhanense | ||
| 1989–1990 | Louletano | ||
| 1990–1991 | Torreense | ||
| 1991 | O Elvas | ||
| 1991–1993 | Torreense | ||
| 1993–1994 | União Leiria | ||
| 1994–1997 | Braga | ||
| 1997–1998 | Belenenses | ||
| 1998–2002 | Braga | ||
| 2002–2003 | União Leiria | ||
| 2003–2004 | Marítimo | ||
| 2004 | Beira-Mar | ||
| 2005–2006 | Naval | ||
| 2006 | Zamalek | ||
| 2006–2009 | Vitória Guimarães | ||
| 2009–2011 | Sharjah | ||
| 2011–2012 | União Leiria | ||
| 2013 | Olhanense | ||
| 2013 | Chongqing | ||
| 2014 | Tianjin Songjiang | ||
| 2015 | Ajman Club | ||
| 2015 | BEC Tero Sasana | ||
| 2017– | Sichuan Longfor | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
Manuel Ventura Cajuda de Sousa (born 27 June 1951) is a Portuguese football manager and currently the head coach of Sichuan Longfor.
In a career which spanned three decades he managed nearly 20 teams in his own country, and also worked in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.
Born in Olhão, Cajuda played exclusively in his native Algarve region during his career, starting out at S.C. Olhanense. In 1975 he joined what would be his main club, S.C. Farense, also in the second division.
In the 1983 summer, even though the Faro side had just promoted to the Primeira Liga, 32-year-old Cajuda decided to retire from playing.
Immediately after retiring, Cajuda started working as a manager with Farense, leading the team through 12 games in its first-ever season in the first division and managing to help it retain its league status after finishing 12th. He continued to work in his native region in the following years, with Portimonense SC, Olhanense and Louletano DC.
In 1994, after years of working almost exclusively in the second level – the exception being S.C.U. Torreense in the 1991–92 campaign – Cajuda signed for S.C. Braga, remaining in Minho for the following eight years (ranking in fourth place in 1997 and 2001), with two incomplete seasons with C.F. Os Belenenses in between. He managed to finish in the top six with his following two clubs, U.D. Leiria – he had already been in charge of them nine years before, in division two – and C.S. Marítimo.
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