Dorival Júnior

I tend to read football coaches as students of human nature, and Dorival Junior fits that mold perfectly. A defensive midfielder in his playing days, notably for Palmeiras, he learned the game from the position that sees everything unfold. That perspective tends to make for managers who read the board deeply, and his current spell at Sao Paulo continues a long, grafting career born in Araraquara. What draws me to him is not flash but feel, the sense of a man who understands players as people. I will always back the patient, man-management type over the celebrity tactician, and he strikes me as exactly that.

Name (English)

Dorival Júnior

Name (Japanese)

ドリヴァウ・シウヴェストレ・ジュニオール

Reading

どりゔぁう・しうゔぇすとれ・じゅにおーる

Born

April 25, 1962 (age 64)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Tiger

Origin

Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil

Height

178 cm

Occupation

association football player / head coach / association football coach

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/dorivaljroficial/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorival%20J%C3%BAnior
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1608978

Tags

• São Paulo
• association football player
• head coach
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-23

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.