Douglas Costa

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Douglas Costa
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in the jersey of the national team (2018)
Personnel
Surname Douglas Costa de Souza
birthday September 14, 1990
place of birth Sapucaia do Sul ,  Brazil
size 172 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
2001-2002 EC Novo Hamburgo
2002-2008 Gremio Porto Alegre
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2008-2009 Gremio Porto Alegre 28 0(2)
2010-2015 Shakhtar Donetsk 141 (29)
2015-2017 FC Bayern Munich 50 0(8)
2017– Juventus Turin 71 0(6)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2009 Brazil U20 12 0(4)
2014– Brazil 31 0(3)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of November 20, 2018

Douglas Costa de Souza (born September 14, 1990 in Sapucaia do Sul ) is a Brazilian soccer player who has been under contract with Juventus Turin since July 2017 .

Club career

youth

Douglas Costa was born in Sapucaia do Sul in the state of Rio Grande do Sul and started playing football in 2001 in the youth department of EC Novo Hamburgo . He played in the club for almost a year, after which he moved to the youth department of Grêmio Porto Alegre , where he went through several age groups until 2008 and during this time already aroused the interest of some top European clubs. In March 2008 he was named top scorer and best player of the tournament at the Punta Cup in Uruguay , where he finished second with the team .

Gremio Porto Alegre

On October 4, 2008 (28 matchday), the 2: 1 victory in the home match of Gremio against Botafogo , Costa made his professional debut in the Series A . Used from the start, scored the equalizer in the 33rd minute to make it 1-1 and was replaced by Makelele shortly after the 2-1 winning goal by his teammate Réver Humberto Alves Araújo in the 66th minute . In his second league game, just four days later, he also showed good performances over 90 minutes and prepared both goals in the 2-0 win at home against Santos Futebol Clube . This was followed by four more league games and at the end of the season, he finished with the team in the Series A - with a distance of only three points on the champion Sao Paulo - the second place in the championship .

He also won the Taça Belo Horizonte de Juniores , the cup competition for Brazilian U-20 club teams, and was their top scorer. Costa played similarly successful in the 2009 season, in which he played 22 league games (initially mostly short appearances), scored one goal, gave four assists and always performed well. In the same year Costa won the Campeonato Brasileiro Sub-20 and the Copa Santiago de Futebol Juvenil with his team .

Costa was regarded as one of the greatest Brazilian soccer talents and was courted by some of the top European clubs such as Chelsea FC , Manchester United , Arsenal FC , Real Madrid , FC Barcelona , Villarreal FC and FC Bayern Munich . His first professional club, Grêmio Porto Alegre, owned 80 percent of the transfer rights at the beginning of January 2010; Costa was entitled to a 20 percent share. It was previously announced that his contract contained an exit clause that would apply from a fixed transfer fee of the equivalent of 26 million euros; his contract ran until February 2013.

Shakhtar Donetsk

In January 2010 Costa moved to the Ukrainian first division club Shakhtar Donetsk , who transferred a transfer fee of an estimated 6.5 million euros to the Brazilian club. For this Shakhtar Donetsk got 80% of the transfer rights; the remaining 20% ​​remained in the possession of Gremio Porto Alegre. After Alex Teixeira in December 2009, Costa became the second Brazilian player to move to Donetsk during the winter break .

FC Bayern Munich

during training on the grounds of FC Bayern Munich (2017)

For the season 2015/16 Costa moved to the Bundesliga for Bayern Munich and signed a contract until 2020. His competitive debut gave it on 1 August 2015 in the game for the Women's World Cup , the 4: 5 in penalties against VfL Wolfsburg lost has been. He was the last Bayern player to convert his penalty to 4: 4. On his Bundesliga debut on August 14, 2015 (1st matchday), he prepared a goal in a 5-0 win at home against Hamburger SV and scored the goal to make it 5-0 himself. On 7 May 2016 (33rd matchday) Costa became German champion in his first season with Bayern Munich . With 14 assists in the Bundesliga, he was the team's best assists. With the cup win on May 21, 2016, he celebrated the double in his first season in Munich. In addition, he converted in the 4: 3 victory i. E. against Borussia Dortmund in Berlin the decisive penalty. In 2017 he won the German championship with FC Bayern Munich .

Juventus Turin

For the 2017/18 season , Costa moved to the Italian Serie A at Juventus Turin for six million euros on loan . After the loan expired, Juventus was entitled to a purchase option of 40 million euros, which can be increased by one million euros through bonus payments. He made his debut on August 19, 2017 (1st matchday) in a 3-0 win in his team's home game against Cagliari Calcio , substituting for Juan Cuadrado in the 74th minute. He made 31 league games and scored four goals. With Juventus, Costa became Italian champions and cup winners .

For the 2018/19 season , Juventus Turin acquired the transfer rights to Costa for the fixed transfer fee and provided him with a contract with a term until June 30, 2022.

National team

Costa, who had previously been active in the U-19 team in his home country and won the U-19 Copa Sendai in Japan in 2008, made twelve international matches for the U-20 national team in 2009 . With her he won the U-20 South American Championship in 2009 . He later came to the 2009 Junior World Cup in Egypt to four missions, in which he scored one goal and gave two assists. With the U-20 national team, he reached the final, which was lost on penalties 3: 4 against the selection of Ghana .

On November 12, 2014 Costa made his debut under coach Carlos Dunga in the Seleção when he came on for Willian in a 4-0 win in the international test match against Turkey .

Costa was appointed to the squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics , but had to cancel due to an injury.

Match fixing

At the end of February 2018, Costa admitted match fixing in Série A 2009 . The club leadership and fans of his former club Grêmio are said to have influenced the players to consciously lose a game against Flamengo Rio de Janeiro on the last day of the season. The background was the possible title win by local rivals SC Internacional . This could have become champion with a victory and simultaneous defeat or draw by Flamengo. For fear of assaults by Gremio fans, the players are said to have lost on purpose. With the defeat of Gremio, Flamengo became champions.

successes

Juventus Turin

FC Bayern Munich

Shakhtar Donetsk

Gremio Porto Alegre

  • Copa Santiago de Futebol Juvenil (U-17) winner: 2008
  • Winner of the Campeonato Brasileiro Sub-20: 2008
  • Taça Belo Horizonte de Juniores (U-20) winner: 2008
  • Runner-up in the A series: 2008

National team

  • U-19 Copa Sendai winner: 2008
  • Winner of the Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-20: 2009
  • Finalist at the 2009 Junior World Championships in Egypt

Awards

Web links

Commons : Douglas Costa  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://tournament.fifadata.com/documents/FWC/2018/pdf/FWC_2018_SQUADLISTS.PDF
  2. ↑ HECHOS Y NUMEROS (Spanish) on www.puntacup.com, accessed on May 4, 2013.
  3. ↑ Manchester United entra na briga por Douglas Costa (Portuguese), accessed November 3, 2009.
  4. ↑ FC Barcelona - Youth: Douglas Costa de Souza (Gremio) (English), accessed on November 3, 2009.
  5. ↑ Arsenal e Bayern entram na disputa com Manchester por Douglas Costa, diz site (Portuguese), accessed on November 3, 2009.
  6. ↑ Дуглас Коста - игрок "Шахтера" (Ukrainian), accessed January 8, 2010.
  7. ↑ Shaktar Donetsk fetches Douglas Costa ( memento from June 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 8, 2010.
  8. ↑ FC Bayern sign Douglas Costa ( Memento from July 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ See the official confirmation from Juventus Turin, available as PDF (79.2 KB).
  10. ↑ See the official confirmation from Juventus Turin dated June 7, 2018, available as PDF (150 KB).
  11. ↑ Ghana's U-20s celebrate World Cup title: Victory against Brazil , accessed on February 17, 2018.
  12. ↑ Brazil maintained their unbeaten record with Dunga and thrash Turkey by 4-0  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 24, 2014.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / selecao.cbf.com.br  
  13. ↑ Cancellation Costa on spiegel.de, accessed on July 11, 2016.
  14. ^ Match manipulation , report on welt.de from February 22, 2018, accessed on February 22, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Costa, Douglas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Costa de Souza, Douglas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Sapucaia do Sul , Brazil