Leandro Cuca

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Leandro Cuca
Personal information
Full name Leandro da Silva
Date of birth (1973-08-24) 24 August 1973 (age 52)
Place of birth Blumenau, Brazil
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position Defensive midfielder
Youth career
1988–1994 Coritiba
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1994–1997 Coritiba 27 (2)
1996Londrina (loan)
1998 Iraty
1998 XV de Piracicaba
1999 Criciúma 30 (0)
2000 Juventus-SP
2001 XV de Piracicaba
2002 União Barbarense
2002–2003 União Madeira 2 (0)
2004–2005 Cianorte
2005 Gama
2005–2006 Adap Galo Maringá
2006 Paraná
2007 Chapecoense
2008 Caxias
2009 Universidade 4 (0)
Managerial career
2010–2011 J. Malucelli U20
2013 União Barbarense (assistant)
2013–2014 Figueirense U20
2015 Paraná (assistant)
2015 Volta Redonda (assistant)
2015 Volta Redonda
2016 Vila Nova (assistant)
2016 Vila Nova (interim)
2017–2018 Corinthians (assistant)
2018 Al-Wehda (assistant)
2019 Corinthians (assistant)
2020–2021 Al-Ittihad (assistant)
2021–2022 Santos (assistant)
2022 Athletico Paranaense (assistant)
2022–2023 V-Varen Nagasaki (assistant)
2024 Santos (assistant)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Leandro da Silva (born 24 August 1973), known as Leandro Cuca or just Cuca, is a Brazilian football coach and former player who played as a defensive midfielder.

Playing career

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Born in Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Cuca began his career with Coritiba in 1994. He left the club in 1997 after a loan stint at Londrina, and subsequently represented Iraty, XV de Piracicaba (two stints), Criciúma, Juventus-SP and União Barbarense before moving abroad in 2002, with Portuguese Segunda Liga side União da Madeira.

Cuca returned to his home country in 2004 with Cianorte. He went on to play for Gama, Adap Galo Maringá, Paraná,[1] Chapecoense, Caxias and Universidade, retiring with the latter in 2009 at the age of 36.

Coaching career

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After retiring, Cuca worked at J. Malucelli's youth setup before returning to União Barbarense in 2013, as an assistant coach.[2] He was also a manager of the under-20 squad of Figueirense, and also worked as an assistant manager at Paraná[3] and Volta Redonda before being named manager of the latter on 30 August 2015, in the place of sacked Leandro Niehues.[4]

Cuca was himself dismissed by Voltaço on 20 November 2015,[5] and subsequently rejoined Niehues' staff at Vila Nova in March 2016.[6] In June, he was named interim manager after Niehues was sacked.[7]

On 23 December 2016, Cuca was named Fábio Carille's assistant at Corinthians.[8] He subsequently followed Carille to Al-Wehda, Al-Ittihad, Santos (two stints),[9] Athletico Paranaense and Japanese club V-Varen Nagasaki, always as his assistant.

Career statistics

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Club Season League State League Cup Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Coritiba 1995 Série B 0 0 19 2 19 2
1996 Série A 8 0 0 0 1 0 9 0
1997 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
Total 8 0 19 2 2 0 29 2
Criciúma 1999[10] Série B 18 0 12 0 30 0
União Madeira 2002–03 Segunda Liga 2 0 2 0
Universidade 2009 Gaúcho 4 0 4 0
Career total 28 0 35 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 65 2

Managerial statistics

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As of 30 January 2022
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nat From To Record Ref
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Volta Redonda Brazil 30 August 2015 20 November 2015 15 10 2 3 28 12 +16 066.67 [11]
Vila Nova (interim) Brazil 5 June 2016 14 June 2016 3 2 0 1 3 1 +2 066.67 [12]
Corinthians (interim) Brazil 26 October 2019 26 October 2019 1 0 1 0 0 0 +0 000.00 [13]
Santos (interim) Brazil 26 January 2022 29 January 2022 2 0 1 1 0 1 −1 000.00
Total 21 12 4 5 31 14 +17 057.14

References

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