Roque Júnior

Roque Junior is the kind of footballer whose career I think gets unfairly flattened to one rough season abroad. People remember the difficult Leeds spell, but I keep coming back to the bigger picture: a 186cm defender who earned 48 caps for Brazil and was part of the 2002 World Cup-winning squad. That is rarefied company. Coming out of Santa Rita do Sapucai in Minas Gerais to anchor a defense at the highest level says plenty about his reading of the game. These days he works as a pundit, which feels natural, the defenders often make the sharpest analysts.

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Name (English)

Roque Júnior

Name (Japanese)

ロッキ・ジュニオール

Reading

ろっき・じゅにおーる

Born

August 31, 1976 (age 50)

Origin

Santa Rita do Sapucaí, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Height

186 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Dragon

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/roquejr04/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roque%20J%C3%BAnior
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A5%E3%83%8B%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315831

Tags

• Minas Gerais
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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