Júlio César da Silva e Souza (born 26 February 1980) is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Club career César started his career in 1997 at Fluminense. During his five-year spell at the club he won the Campeonato Carioca in 2002. Afterwards he moved to Russia and signed for Lokomotiv Moscow. There he won the Russian Championship in 2002 and the Russian Super Cup in 2003. In 2004 he traveled to Portugal and played for Estrela da Amadora and then Gil Vicente. On 17 January 2005 César was transferred to the Greek side AEK Athens for a fee of €540,000. He scored the goal in the famous 1–0 win for AEK against AC Milan in front of over 69.000 spectators in the Athens Olympic Stadium with a direct free kick.
In the summer of 2008 his contract was expired and César signed for the Romanian Rapid București. He was released by Rapid București during the winter break because he did not play as good as expected for the money spent on him, he was the highest paid member of the squad and also Rapid had financial problems. In the following season he played for Turkish side Gaziantepspor. In the 2009–10 season he scored 13 goals for Gaziantepspor, making him the top goalscorer of the team and the second goalscorer of the Turkish Süper Lig, after Ariza Makukula.
Honours Fluminense Campeonato Carioca: 2002
Lokomotiv Moscow Russian Premier League: 2002 Russian Super Cup: 2003
Coritiba Campeonato Paranaense: 2013
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