Jadson Viera

Jadson Viera

Personal information
Full name	Jadson Viera Castro Gonçalves
Date of birth	(1981-08-04) 4 August 1981 (age 43)
Place of birth	Santana do Livramento, Brazil
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s)	Centre back
Team information
Current team	Boston River (manager)
Youth career
1996–2000	Cantareira
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2001–2007	Danubio	141	(7)
2005	→ Atlante (loan)	14	(1)
2007–2010	Lanús	65	(1)
2010–2011	Vasco da Gama	2	(0)
2011	→ Nacional (loan)	5	(0)
2012	Nacional	17	(0)
2013–2016	Danubio	31	(0)
2016–2017	Rentistas	13	(0)
Managerial career
2018	Nacional (assistant)
2019–2021	Talleres (assistant)
2022	Internacional (assistant)
2022–2023	Vélez Sarsfield (assistant)
2024–	Boston River
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jadson Viera Castro Gonçalves (born 4 August 1981), known as Jadson Viera or just Jadson, is a Brazilian football manager and former player who played as a central defender. He is the current manager of Uruguayan club Boston River.

Born in Brazil, Jadson also holds Uruguayan nationality.

Playing career

Jadson was born in Santana do Livramento, Rio Grande do Sul, a city in the Uruguayan border, and started his professional career in 2001 with Danubio in Uruguay. With the club, he won two Apertura, three Clausura and two overall Uruguayan Primera División titles.

Jadson spent part of 2005 on loan to Atlante in Mexico before returning to Uruguay in 2006. After helping Danubio to claim the overall league championship in 2007, he moved to Argentina to join Lanús, where he helped the club to win the 2007 Apertura tournament, their first ever top flight league title.

In July 2010, Jadson signed with Vasco da Gama.^[1] After featuring rarely, he returned to Uruguay on 3 February 2011, after being loaned to Nacional.^[2]

Jadson subsequently signed a permanent deal with Nacional for the 2012 season, but returned to his first club Danubio in 2013. He retired in 2017, after a brief spell with Rentistas.

Coaching career

After retiring, Viera was appointed assistant coach at Nacional under manager Alexander Medina.^[3] The duo left the club at the end of the year.

Viera followed Medina to Argentine club Talleres de Córdoba in June 2019,^[4] and remained working as his assistant at Internacional and Vélez Sarsfield. On 18 December 2023, he was appointed manager of Boston River for the upcoming campaign.^[5]

Honours

Danubio

• Uruguayan Primera División: 2004, 2006–07, 2013–14

Lanús

• Argentine Primera División: 2007 Apertura

Nacional

• Uruguayan Primera División: 2010–11, 2011–12

References

1. "Jadson Viera vai ser apresentado nesta quinta-feira, em São Januário" [Jadson Viera will be presented this Thursday, at the São Januário] (in Brazilian Portuguese). ge. 29 July 2010. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
2. "Assessoria do jogador anuncia volta de Jadson Vieira ao futebol uruguaio" [Press advisory of the player announces the return of Jadson Viera to Uruguayan football] (in Brazilian Portuguese). ge. 3 February 2011. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
3. Jadson Viera será el ayudante técnico de Alexander Medina‚ ecos.la, 4 January 2018
4. Quiénes serán los colaboradores del nuevo entrenador de Talleres, 8 June 2019
5. "La sorpresiva designación de DT de Boston River para la próxima temporada y el ex Peñarol que se suma al equipo" [The surprising naming of Boston River's manager for the following season and the former Peñarol man who joins the team] (in Spanish). El País. 18 December 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023.

External links

• Player profile on the Lanús website (in Spanish) at the Wayback Machine (archived 17 November 2007)
• Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI (in Spanish) at the Wayback Machine (archived 28 May 2012)
• Argentine Primera statistics (in Spanish)
• Jadson Viera at Soccerway