Manuel da Costa
| Manuel da Costa | ||
 da Costa in the Sivasspor jersey (2013)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Manuel Marouane da Costa Trindade Senoussi | |
| birthday | May 6, 1986 | |
| place of birth | Saint-Max , France | |
| size | 187 cm | |
| position | defender | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2004-2006 | AS Nancy | 10 (0) |
| 2006-2008 | PSV Eindhoven | 16 (1) |
| 2008-2009 | AC Florence | 1 (0) |
| 2009 | → Sampdoria Genoa (loan) | 2 (0) |
| 2009-2011 | West Ham United | 31 (3) |
| 2011-2013 | Moscow locomotive | 15 (2) |
| 2012-2013 | → Nacional Funchal (loan) | 15 (2) |
| 2013-2015 | Sivasspor | 49 (8) |
| 2015-2017 | Olympiacos Piraeus | 40 (4) |
| 2017-2019 | Istanbul Başakşehir FK | 23 (3) |
| 2019-2020 | Ittihad FC | 18 (4) |
| 2020– | Trabzonspor | 0 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) 2 |
| 2006-2008 | Portugal U-21 | 22 (0) |
| 2014– | Morocco | 31 (1) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of January 31, 2020 2 As of July 4, 2016 |
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Manuel Marouane da Costa Trindade Senoussi (born May 6, 1986 in Saint-Max , France ) is a Moroccan football player . Manuel da Costa is the son of a Portuguese father and a Moroccan mother.
Career
Da Costa is a defender and is mostly used in central defense. He started his career at AS Nancy in France . After two seasons he moved to PSV Eindhoven in the Dutch Eredivisie . With Eindhoven, da Costa also played in the UEFA Champions League .
After good performance, he moved to the Italian first division club Fiorentina . In Florence he only completed two competition games and was awarded to Sampdoria Genoa for half a year in January 2009 . He played four games in Genoa, including one in the UEFA Cup .
After the loan deal ended, he was transferred to West Ham United as part of an exchange deal . In return, Savio Nsereko moved to Italy.
Since he has been under contract with Lokomotiv Moscow in 2011 , he has not been able to assert himself with the Russians, so that he was awarded to Nacional Funchal in his home country in the 2012/13 season .
In the summer of 2013, Da Costa moved to Sivasspor in the Turkish Süper Lig .
After two seasons with Sivasspor, he moved to Olympiacos for the 2015/16 season . In summer 2017 he returned to Turkey with his move to the first division club Istanbul Başakşehir . He moved to Ittihad FC during the 2018/19 winter transfer period . Since the winter transfer window 2019/2020, he has been under contract in the top Turkish league of the Süper Lig at Trabzonspor , which runs until summer 2020.
National team
Manuel da Costa was born in France to a Portuguese father and a Moroccan mother and could therefore choose whether he wanted to play for the French , Moroccan or Portuguese national team. Although he hardly speaks Portuguese , he initially opted for Portugal.
He played 22 games for Portugal's U-21 national team , he was also in the squad several times for the senior national team, but was not used in any game. Da Costa now played for Morocco's A-Team and came there on May 23, 2014 in a 4-0 win in the friendly against Mozambique for his first appearance. On September 5, 2014, he played his first competitive game for Morocco in the 3-0 success in the qualifier for the Africa Cup 2017 against São Tomé and Príncipe , so that he was now only eligible to play for this country. With Morocco he then took part in the Africa Cup in 2017, in which they failed in the quarter-finals with 0: 1 to Egypt . Da Costa scored his first goal for Morocco in the 2-0 win in the friendly against Uzbekistan on March 27, 2018.
He was in Morocco's squad for the 2018 World Cup . After a 2-2 draw against Spain and two 0-1 defeats against Portugal and Iran , Morocco was the last in Group B to be eliminated from the tournament. Da Costa started the first two games and was substituted on for Iran.
successes
- With Olympiacos Piraeus
Web links
- Manuel da Costa in the database of weltfussball.de
- Manuel da Costa in the database of transfermarkt.de
- Manuel da Costa in the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu database (English)
- Manuel da Costa in the mackolik.com database (Turkish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sivasspor'a Portekizli stoper. In: milliyet.com.tr . July 17, 2013, accessed June 25, 2018 (Turkish).
- ↑ Match report , accessed on July 4, 2018.
- ↑ Match report , accessed on July 4, 2018.
- ↑ Match report , accessed on July 4, 2018.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Costa, Manuel there |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Costa Trindade Senoussi, Manuel Marouan there |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Moroccan-Portuguese soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Max , France |