Pedro Julião Azevedo Junior (born 12 December 1985), known as Juninho Quixadá (), is a Brazilian

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who plays as a

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for Maracanã.

Career

Born in

Quixadá Quixadá () is a municipality in the state of Ceará in Brazil. It is known for its unusual rock formations, known locally as monoliths. Location Quixadá is located at around . It was founded in 1870 and had a population of 80,605 residents in ...

, Juninho Quixadá has previously played for Ferroviário, as well as for

Bragantino Red Bull Bragantino () is a Brazilian football club based in Bragança Paulista, São Paulo. It competes in the Série A, the top tier of the Brazilian football league system, as well as in the Campeonato Paulista Série A1, the highest level ...

, before moving in 2011 to

Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

. On 20 June 2011, Juninho joined

PFC Ludogorets Razgrad Professional Football Club Ludogorets 1945 (), commonly known as Ludogorets Razgrad or simply Ludogorets, is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Razgrad, which currently competes in the First Professional Football League ...

on a three-year contract for an undisclosed fee. He made his debut on 3 July in a 6–1 friendly win against

Septemvri Simitli FC Septemvri () is a Bulgarian football club based in Simitli, which currently plays in the Third League, the third tier of the Bulgarian football league system. History The club was founded in 1942. From 1961 to 1975, it was called "Pirin miner ...

, playing 45 minutes on the right wing. Juninho made his league debut for Ludogorets against

Lokomotiv Plovdiv PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv (), commonly known as Loko Plovdiv, is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Plovdiv. Lokomotiv's home ground is the Stadion Lokomotiv (Plovdiv), Lokomotiv Stadium which is situated in Lauta Park and ha ...

on 6 August 2011. He scored his first competitive goal on 20 August in a 4–0 victory against

Vidima-Rakovski FC Sevlievo () is a Bulgarian association football club based in Sevlievo, which currently competes in the North-West Third League, the third tier of Bulgarian football league system. Their home ground is Stadion Rakovski, which currently has ...

. On 11 September, he scored twice in a 6–0 win over

Slavia Sofia PFC Slavia Sofia 1913 () is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which currently competes in the top tier of the Bulgarian football league system, the First League. Slavia's home ground is the Stadion Aleksandar Sh ...

. On 28 November 2011, in a 2–2 away draw against

CSKA Sofia CSKA Sofia () is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia and currently competing in the country's premier football competition, the First League. ''CSKA'' is an abbreviation for ''Central Sports Club of the Army'' ...

, Juninho netted his fourth goal of the season and assisted Ivan Stoyanov. On 27 February 2014, he scored a

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against

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to bring the score to 3:3 and enable his team to advance to the 1/8 finals of the

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by 4:3 on aggregate. After almost 7 years in Ludogorets, Juninho left the club on 11 January 2018 due to mutual agreement.

Club statistics

''As of 11 January 2018''

International career

On 24 January 2013, Juninho received a

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and potentially became able to play for

. He said that he would be happy to represent Bulgaria on the international level.Лудогорец си уреди двама "нови българи"
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Honours

Club

; Ludogorets *

Bulgarian First Professional League The First Professional Football League (), commonly known as Parva Liga or Bulgarian First League (currently known as the efbet League for sponsorship reasons), is a professional association football league in Bulgaria and the highest level of t ...

: 2011–12,

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, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015-16, 2016–17 *

Bulgarian Cup The Bulgarian Cup () is a Bulgarian annual football competition. It is the country's main cup competition and all officially registered Bulgarian football teams take part in it. The tournament's format is ''single-elimination'', with all matche ...

: 2011–12, 2013–14 *

Bulgarian Supercup The Bulgarian Supercup () is the trophy won in a football match held between the football club that has won the Bulgarian first football division in the season that ended in the year of the match and the holder of the Bulgarian Cup at that time. ...

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

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* * 1985 births Living people Footballers from Ceará Naturalised citizens of Bulgaria Brazilian men's footballers Men's association football forwards Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players Campeonato Brasileiro Série B players Campeonato Brasileiro Série D players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Ferroviário Atlético Clube (CE) players Clube Atlético Bragantino players Ceará Sporting Club players PFC Ludogorets Razgrad players Horizonte Futebol Clube players Esporte Clube Vitória players ABC Futebol Clube players Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Brazilian emigrants to Bulgaria Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria People from Quixadá 21st-century Brazilian sportsmen {{Brazil-footy-forward-1980s-stub