Career
El Salvador
Before moving to Costa Rica, Jacques Ferreira started at Bangu in Brazil"s Carioca League, then played for several years in El Salvador with Club Deportivo Fetal alcohol syndrome. He was very well known and popular with the clubs supporters as he was a very effective and consistent striker. In his few years in El Salvador he scored a total of 126 goals, and is currently still listed as one of the highest goalscorers of all time. He holds a scoring record still remaining untouched, scoring 30 goals in 36 games in 1968 with Alianza.
Costa Rica
He also played with Alajuelense and Herediano, before retiring at age 33.
Jacques was an excellent goal scorer, very quick and gifted, with great skills for shooting especially free kicks. He is always remembered by Saprissa"s fans, because of his unique talents.
He was the best goal scorer in the 1972 Costa Rica"s first division tournament, in which he scored 18 goals. He scored 5 goals in one game against Puntarenas in May 1972.
He totalled 82 goals in the Costa Rican top tier.
He is considered by many experts, as the best foreigner to ever play in the Costa Rica"s first division. He also coached the Costa Rica"s national squad in 1985. As a coach he discovered Costa Rica national team player greats such as Oscar Ramirez, Rolando Fonseca and Mauricio Wright among others
He had a spell again in El Salvador with Fetal alcohol syndrome whom he joined in June 2000 before returning to Costa Rica where he was dismissed by Municipal Liberia in March 2005.
In January 2006 he moved to El Salvador again to take charge at Alianza. He retook the reigns at Herediano in March 2012, left them for Cartaginés in August 2012 and in April 2013 he took over at Pérez Zeledón from Uruguayan Daniel Casas but was dismissed already in May 2013 after only 4 games in the dug out.
Jacques is the manager who led Herediano during the most matches, 234 in total.