Ricardo Catalá Salgado Junior (born 28 April 1982), known as Ricardo Catalá, is a Brazilian professional football

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, currently in charge of

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Career

Of Catalan heritage, Catalá's first senior job was at

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's ''Cadete A'' squad in 2005. He left the club in 2007, and joined Audax in the following year, being appointed in charge of the under-17s. On 13 November 2013, Catalá joined

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's staff as an assistant at

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. On 11 October 2017, he was appointed as manager for the ensuing campaign, but was sacked the following 3 September after a run of poor results. On 23 April 2019, Catalá was named at the helm of

. On 6 November, after reaching the semifinals of the year's

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(the club's best-ever position in the tournament), he renewed his contract for a further year. Catalá took Mirassol to the semifinals of the

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, despite losing 18 first team players due to the

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. On 29 August, he replaced sacked Thiago Carpini at the helm of Guarani, but was himself dismissed on 7 October. On 29 December 2020, Catalá was announced at the helm of São Bernardo. The following 1 October, after winning the

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, he left the club and took over Operário Ferroviário in the second division. On 19 March 2022, Catalá left Operário in a mutual agreement, and returned to Mirassol just hours later.

Honours

Club

;São Bernardo *

: 2021 ;Mirassol *

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Best Manager:

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