Misomar Rodrigues de Amorim Júnior (born 3 October 1972), known as Júnior Amorim, is a Brazilian retired

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who played as a

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, and is a

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Playing career

Amorim was born in

Belém Belém (; Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará) often called Belém of Pará, is a Brazilian city, capital and largest city of the state of Pará in t ...

Pará Pará is a Federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins (state), Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas (Brazilian state) ...

, and finished his formation with

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. After making his senior debut with

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in 1992, he moved abroad to join

R.E. Mouscron Royal Excelsior Mouscron was a Belgian football club from the municipality of Mouscron, Hainaut. In December 2009 they were declared bankrupt and soon ceased to exist. A new club known as Royal Excel Mouscron was formed in March 2010 and place ...

in the following year before returning to Sampaio Corrêa. Amorim's first title came up in 1999, as he won the

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with

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. After representing

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, Portuguesa,

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and

Sport Recife Sport Club do Recife, (; known as Sport Recife or Sport, is a Brazilian sports club, located in the city of Recife, in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. Founded in 1905, the club currently plays in Série B. In football, the club has w ...

, he was the top goalscorer of the 2002

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with Santa Cruz, scoring 12 goals. Amorim then left for city rivals Náutico, but returned to Sport in 2003. After playing for hometown sides Paysandu and

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, he joined CRB in 2006. He later returned to the latter club in 2007, after a brief stint at America-RJ, and was the club's top goalscorer in the league during his two-year spell; his second year, however, ended in relegation. In March 2009, Amorim returned to

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after signing for

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from Madureira; highlights included a goal in a 1–0 victory over

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's Santos which knocked the team out of the

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. He returned to CRB for the 2010 season, but was released in September of that year due to the club's poor financial situation. In 2011, Amorim represented

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, and played for Independente-PA the following year. In January 2014, after two years without a club, he joined

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. He later moved to Santa Rita, and retired in the end of the year at the age of 42.

Managerial career

Amorim started his managerial career with Pinheirense in 2016, winning the second division of the

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. On 5 December of the following year, he was named manager of his former club Independente for the ensuing campaign. On 6 July 2018, Amorim took over Tuna Luso. In the following February, he was in charge of São Francisco-PA before being appointed João Brigatti's assistant at another of his former clubs, Sampaio Corrêa, in June. On 20 February 2020, after Brigatti's departure to Ponte Preta, Amorim was appointed manager of Sampaio in an interim manner. He was definitely appointed manager on 3 March, after one match in charge, but was dismissed seven days later after another match.

Honours

Player

Sampaio Corrêa *

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Campeonato Maranhense The Campeonato Maranhense is the football league of the state of Maranhão, Brazil. Clubs 2021 First Division *Bacabal Esporte Clube *Sociedade Esportiva Juventude *Instituto de Administração de Projetos Educacionais Futebol Clube ( IAPE) * ...

: 1998 Ceará *

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: 1999 Fortaleza *

: 2001 Sport Recife *

: 2003 Remo *

: 2004

Individual

top goalscorer: 2002 (12 goals) *

Campeonato Alagoano The Campeonato Alagoano is the football league of the state of Alagoas, Brazil. Format 2020 First Division The Campeonato Alagoano is divided into three stages. *First stage: simple round-robin, in which all eight teams play each other once. ...

top goalscorer: 2008 (14 goals)

Manager

Pinheirense *

Segunda Divisão: 2016

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Amorim, Junior 1972 births Living people Sportspeople from Belém Brazilian footballers Association football forwards Esporte Clube Passo Fundo players Sampaio Corrêa Futebol Clube players Ceará Sporting Club players ABC Futebol Clube players União São João Esporte Clube players Associação Portuguesa de Desportos players Fortaleza Esporte Clube players Sport Club do Recife players Clube Náutico Capibaribe players Santa Cruz Futebol Clube players Paysandu Sport Club players Clube do Remo players Clube de Regatas Brasil players America Football Club (RJ) players Madureira Esporte Clube players Centro Sportivo Alagoano players Associação Atlética Coruripe players Murici Futebol Clube players Associação Atlética Santa Rita players Brazilian football managers Tuna Luso Brasileira managers Sampaio Corrêa Futebol Clube managers