Domingos Alexandre Martins Costa

Domingos Alexandre Martins da Costa, known as Alex, ( born September 6, 1979 in Guimarães ) is a Portuguese football player. Since the summer of 2009, the right-back is at Vitória Guimarães under contract.

Career

Association

Alex began his professional career in 1998 when unterklassigen Portuguese Club AD Fafe. After three years, the wing defender moved to Moreirense FC, ​​with whom he could 2001/02 Liga de Honra, so the second Portuguese league win, and ascended into the Primeira Liga. For the season 2002/ 03 Alex gave his Erstligadebüt and convinces with good performance. With his club he managed also in the league. In the meantime, however, the Portuguese top teams were aware of the defensive player and then Benfica secured in the summer of 2003, the services of the defender. With Benfica Alex was runner-up and won the Taça de Portugal, the national cup. However, he failed to assert itself and was awarded for the following year to league rival Vitória Guimarães. In VSP Alex rose to the trunk force. This also noticed the German club VfL Wolfsburg, so that these negotiated by Alex return to Lisbon with Benfica Responsible for a transfer. So the defender moved for about 1.8 million euros for the season 2005/ 06 Benfica to the wolves. In the first year he was with the wolves 17 times in the Bundesliga for use. His debut in the Bundesliga was the Portuguese on Matchday 3, 27 August 2005 against Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Just under the Green-Whites secured the league. In the following two years, however, were only a total of four bets to book. With the beginning of the season 2008/ 09 he no longer belonged to the squad after he was rejected by Felix Magath. In the summer of 2009, Alex returned to his former club Vitória Guimarães.

National

For the Portuguese national team Alex played three times. His debut for Portugal was the defensive player on 4 June 2005 in the FIFA World Cup qualifier against Slovakia .. His last game he played shortly afterwards, on 17 August 2005, in a friendly against Egypt. At 2-0 he was in the starting lineup of the selection .. In all three appearances for Portugal Alex was always in the star formation and was never replaced. Each of the three encounters with the defender won the national selection.

Achievements

• Liga de Honra with Moreirense FC: 2002
• Taça de Portugal with Benfica: 2004
• German champions VfL Wolfsburg with: 2009 (excluding league use )