Dino da Costa

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Dino da Costa
Personnel
birthday August 1, 1931
place of birth Rio de Janeiro ,  Brazil
size 182 cm
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1951-1955 Botafogo FR 51 (36)
1955-1960 AS Roma 144 (80)
1960-1961 ACF Fiorentina 30 0(8)
1961 AS Roma 5 0(1)
1961-1963 Atalanta Bergamo 52 (18)
1963-1966 Juventus Turin 51 (11)
1966-1967 Hellas Verona 31 0(5)
1967-1968 Del Duca Ascoli 10 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1958 Italy 1 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1967-1968 Del Duca Ascoli
1 Only league games are given.

Dino da Costa (born August 1, 1931 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a former Brazilian football player and coach who spent most of his career in Italy .

Career

Beginnings in Brazil

Dino da Costa, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1931, began playing football for the Botafogo FR club in the district of the same name in the Brazilian metropolis. For Botafogo da Costa played from 1951 to 1955 and won no title during this time. In 1954 he was top scorer of the national championship of Rio de Janeiro , the Campeonato Carioca, with 24 goals in 26 games . He completed a total of 51 games in the state championships and in the Brazilian Cup competition for Botafogo and left the club in 1955 for Europe .

Success in Rome and Florence

During a tour of Botafogo in Italy , the talent scouts of the capital club AS Rome noticed the 23-year-old Brazilian and the Roma signed him for the 1955/56 season . He made his debut for AS Roma on September 18, 1955 on the first day of the season in a 4-1 win against newly promoted Lanerossi Vicenza . With AS Roma he finished the 1955/56 season in sixth place. The following season did not go so well for the Roma, they only reached a disappointing 14th place in the table. However, Dino da Costa was able to win the top scorer's crown with 22 goals this season, making him the first Brazilian in Italy's elite league to succeed. Also in 1957/58 he scored many goals, 19 hits were not enough for the title of best league goal scorer, but helped his club AS Roma to participate in the Messestädte-Pokal 1958-1960 , in which the end then finally in the quarter-finals against the Belgian representative Royale Union Saint-Gilloise came from Brussels . Overall, Dino da Costa played for the Roma until 1960, before he was loaned to the ACF Fiorentina after 144 league games in which he scored 70 goals . In the 1960/61 season he was seventh with Florence and won the Coppa Italia with a 2-0 final victory over Lazio Rome . In the same year he won the European Cup Winners 'Cup with Fiorentina , the very first European Cup Winners' Cup. In the final, the Glasgow Rangers were defeated 2-0 in Scotland and 2-1 in Florence . Da Costa was involved in both finals, but was unable to contribute a goal. Da Costa played 30 games for Fiorentina in the season and scored eight goals before returning to Rome after the end of the season and playing for AS Roma for another six months. In those six months he won the Messestädte-Pokal 1960/61 with Roma after beating Birmingham City 2-2 and 2-0 in the final. Dino da Costa was used in the first leg of the final, at 2-2 in Birmingham . By winning the Messestädte Cup in 1960/61, he won two international titles in one year.

Atalanta, Juve and career end

He then moved to Atalanta Bergamo in northern Italy and helped the club, which was mostly to be found in the middle to lower table regions of Serie A, in its first season to reach sixth place in the table. 1962/63 Atalanta was able to confirm this success and finished eighth. Once again, Dino da Costa managed to win the Italian Football Cup, this time with a 3-1 win against AC Turin . The Milan Cup final was also his last game for Atalanta Bergamo. After 52 league games and eighteen goals, he went to league rivals Juventus Turin , the reigning runner- up at the end of the 1962/63 season. For Juventus he made 51 league games and scored eleven goals. In 1965, da Costa won the Coppa Italia with Juve for the third time in his career , and Inter Milan were defeated 1-0 in the final in Rome . As a result, Juventus was eligible to participate in the 1965/66 European Cup Winners' Cup , but they failed in the first round at Liverpool FC . Dino da Costa did not achieve any further great successes with Juventus Turin, in the league it was only enough to place fifth or sixth place. For the 1966/67 season he was signed by the second division Hellas Verona . In the Hellas Verona jersey, da Costa was used 31 times in Serie B and scored five goals. In 1967 he moved to Del Duca Ascoli for a year before ending his career there in 1968 at the age of 37. In that one year he had worked as a player-coach in Ascoli Piceno .

National team

Dino da Costa is a native of Brazil. Nevertheless, after a naturalization he was eligible to play in the Italian national football team , for which he made an international match. On January 15, 1958, he was in the squad of the Italians in the qualifying match for the 1958 World Cup in Sweden against Northern Ireland in Belfast . In the 2-1 defeat, da Costa was the scorer of the only Italian goal that day.

successes

ACF Fiorentina 1960/61
Atalanta Bergamo 1962/63
Juventus Turin 1964/65
ACF Fiorentina 1960/61
AS Roma 1960/61

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personal data
SURNAME Costa, Dino there
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian-Italian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro , Brazil