Joe Costa

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Joe Costa
Personnel
Surname Joseph Costa
birthday 17th July 1992
place of birth Adelaide ,  Australia
position attacking midfield
Juniors
Years station
Doncaster Rovers SC
Western Strikers
Adelaide City
2007-2009 South Australian Sports Institute
2008-2011 Adelaide United
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2009-2011 Adelaide United 1 (0)
2011–2012 Adelaide City
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2007-2008 Australia U17
1 Only league games are given.

Joseph "Joe" Costa (born July 17, 1992 in Adelaide ) is a former Australian soccer player .

Career

Costa began playing soccer with the Doncaster Rovers in a Melbourne suburb, in the ages U-8 to U-12 he then played in Adelaide for the Western Strikers , then in the U-16 area for Adelaide City . In 2007, 2008 and 2009 Costa received a scholarship from the South Australian Sports Institute . In addition, although originally not part of the squad, he was regularly active in the 2008/09 season for the youth team of Adelaide United in the National Youth League , with which he reached the championship final (0-2 against Sydney FC ). In 2007 and 2008 Costa was a regular part of the Australian U-17 squad . In this context he took part in tournaments in Japan , Hilden , Germany and Los Angeles , United States . In July 2008 he won the AFF U-16 Championship in Jakarta with the team and was also successful as a goalscorer in a 6-0 win in the preliminary round against Indonesia.

In 2009, the offensive player received a professional contract with United and made his debut in the A-League at the start of the 2009/10 season in a 1-0 home win against Perth Glory . A cruciate ligament rupture in September 2009 prevented further missions , an injury that was repeated during a youth game in November 2010 and again resulted in a forced break of several months. His contract, which expired in mid-2011, was not renewed by Adelaide United and Costa briefly continued his career with his youth club Adelaide City in the FFSA Super League .

His younger brother Anthony also played for Adelaide United in the A-League in the 2013/14 season.

Web links

  • Joe Costa in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ foxsports.com.au: SASI player plan (Oct. 4, 2007)
  2. ↑ sasi.sa.gov.au: SASI Highlights 2008
  3. ↑ sasi.sa.gov.au: SASI Highlights 2009
  4. ↑ footballwa.net: BIRIGHITTI MAKES AUSTRALIAN DEBUT (Aug. 13, 2007)
  5. ↑ footballwa.net: DUTCH TREAT FOR WEST AUSTRALIAN QUARTET (Aug. 7, 2008)
  6. ↑ footballwa.net: JOEYS PLAY ON DESPITE COACHES DEATH (Dec. 9, 2008)
  7. ↑ footballwa.net: JOEYS CROWNED ASEAN CHAMPIONS (July 20, 2008)
  8. ↑ theworldgame.sbs.com.au: Reds turn to local talent (June 3, 2009)
  9. ↑ ffa.sportalhosting.com: Season over for Costa (Nov. 16, 2010)  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / ffa.sportalhosting.com  
  10. ↑ adelaidenow.com.au: Adelaide City and Adelaide United forward Anthony Costa talks about juggling his soccer commitments for the FFA Cup clash (15 Sep 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Costa, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Costa, Joseph (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Adelaide