Ricardo Costa (Portuguese footballer)

Ricardo Costa, 2013

Ricardo Miguel Moreira da Costa [ ʁikaɾðu kɔʃtɐ ] (born 16 May 1981 in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal) is a Portuguese football player who is under contract at Valencia since 2010. He plays at the position of central defender.

Career

Costa comes from the youth of Boavista Porto and moved at age 18 to local rivals FC Porto. His professional debut for FC he gave in 2002 against Boavista. He belonged to the Portuguese series champion during one of the most successful periods in their history than you UEFA Cup and then the Champions League and then also won the Intercontinental Cup in 2003 year. It was also the FC Porto in his six years in the first team there four times national champion and twice Cup winners. But could not Costa to become a permanent team players. In his personally successful 2004/05 season, he went to 24 Season inserts. After he had only been used eight times in 2006/ 07, he decided to a move abroad.

Since the 2007/ 08 season, he was active for VfL Wolfsburg. However, he withdrew in the first round of the cup before league start a torn ACL to. But on 13 Matchday he was able to celebrate his Bundesliga debut and played from then until the end of the season in almost all games (20 games, 2 goals). In his second year with the wolves, the Portuguese came only in the preliminary round for use and therefore wanted to leave the club again. After winning the German championship and the departure of coach Magath he decided to Spanish side Real Zaragoza to change. The gegoltene as secure change, however, came not materialize due to deviations to previous agreements in the contract. On January 28, 2010 Costa moved finally to the OSC Lille. Finally, six months later, he signed a contract with Spanish side Valencia, his current club.

National

Already in his youth played Ricardo Costa for his country and was nominated several times for the U21 national team of Portugal. He was, among others, also part of the team at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. For the Portuguese national team, he participated in the 2006 World Cup and at the 2010 World Cup.

Achievements

  • UEFA Champions League: 2004
  • UEFA Cup: 2003
  • World Cup: 2004
  • Portuguese champions: 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007
  • Portuguese Football Cup: 2003, 2006
  • Portuguese Super Cup: 2003, 2005, 2006
  • German Masters: 2009
May 16 Defender (association football) Valencia CF 2003–04 UEFA Champions League 2002–03 UEFA Cup 2002-03 in Portuguese football 2005-06 in Portuguese football 2006–07 Primeira Liga Philippe Senderos Oriol Romeu Vicente Guaita Eduardo Vargas Daniel Parejo Juan Antonio Pizzi
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