Julio César Pinheiro

Julio César Pinheiro's career reads like a passport, and that's what intrigues me. A footballer out of Itapeva in São Paulo, he wandered through Mexican giants like Monterrey and Cruz Azul, Spanish sides Osasuna and Logroñés, and finished up at Kyoto Purple Sanga in Japan's J1 League, naturalizing as Mexican along the way. I have a soft spot for these journeyman pros who plant roots wherever the game takes them, learning new leagues, new fans, new languages. He may not headline anyone's highlight reel, but players like him are the connective tissue of world football, and somewhere in Kyoto a few supporters still remember his number eleven.

Name (English)

Julio César Pinheiro

Name (Japanese)

ジュリオ・セザール・ピニェイロ・ガルシア

Reading

じゅりお・せざーる・ぴにぇいろ・がるしあ

Born

August 22, 1976 (age 49)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Dragon

Origin

Itapeva, São Paulo, Brazil

Occupation

association football player

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.11pinheiro.com.br/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/julio_pinheiro11/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A5%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BB%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%94%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A2

Tags

• São Paulo
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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.