José Alí Cañas Navas (born 19 June 1960) is a Venezuelan football manager and former player who played as a forward.
Cañas is the youngest Venezuelan to feature in a Copa Libertadores match, playing at the age of 15 in the 1976 edition.
He is also the only Venezuelan manager to take part of a FIFA World Cup, after being an assistant of Ratomir Dujković in the Ghana national team for the 2006 edition.
He also worked under the same role with subsequent managers Eduardo Borrero and José Omar Pastoriza,[1] while also assisting Dujković at Zulia in 1998;[2] in that year, he was also in charge of Monagas.
[6] On 11 January 2016, after two years as Rafael Dudamel's assistant at Deportivo Lara, Cañas was named manager of the club.