Tino Costa

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Tino Costa
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Tino Costa (2013)
Personnel
Surname Alberto Facundo Costa
birthday January 9, 1985
place of birth Las Flores ( Buenos Aires ),  Argentina
size 176 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1996-2000 AC La Terraza
2000-2003 Racing Club de Basse-Terre
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2003-2004 Racing Club de Basse-Terre
2004-2005 RC Paris 28 0(3)
2005-2007 FC Pau 62 0(4)
2007-2008 FC Sète 29 0(3)
2008-2010 HSC Montpellier 66 (15)
2010-2013 Valencia CF 82 (10)
2013-2016 Spartak Moscow 31 0(3)
2015-2016 →  CFC Genoa  (loan) 18 0(2)
2016 →  Fiorentina  (loan) 7 0(0)
2016-2017 CA San Lorenzo 8 0(0)
2017-2018 UD Almería 14 0(2)
2018-2019 CA San Martín de Tucumán 13 0(4)
2019– Atlético Nacional 9 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2011–2012 Argentina 2 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of December 31, 2019

Alberto Facundo "Tino" Costa (born January 9, 1985 in Las Flores in the province of Buenos Aires , Argentina ), usually just called Tino Costa for short , is an Argentine soccer player who has been under contract with the Colombian first division club Atlético Nacional since June 2019 .

Career

Player profile

Tino Costa is a creative and agile central midfielder with precision. This left-footed player has great technique, strong shots, among other things with stationary balls ( standard situations ), and also pulls towards the opposing goal .

In the club

The beginnings of the football career

His football career began in his youth at AC La Terraza in the vicinity of his hometown of Las Flores .

At the end of 2000 Tino Costa left his home in Argentina for the Caribbean on the French island of Guadeloupe for the amateur club Racing Club de Basse-Terre . A friend who worked on the island helped him to make this life-changing offer. Secretly, he hoped that this would give him the opportunity to move from there to France or to another European country . Shortly before that, the Argentine had completed a trial training session at the traditional Argentinian club Estudiantes de La Plata , where Tino Costa received little attention. In 2003 more trial training sessions followed, this time in Auxerre , Lyon , among other things, he did not want to stay here and he completed other unsuccessful trial training sessions in Marseille , Lille and Bastia . In the 2003/04 season, Costa became a key player on his team. They secured the Guadeloupian National Championship ( Division d'Honneur ) on the last day of the match , and with his 15 goals he was one of the top five goalscorers in the league. The Argentine then scored two goals in the 3-1 victory in the Guadeloupian Cup final ( Coupe de Guadeloupe ) and thus played a significant role in the cup win and the double .

After several years and finals that the Argentine had reached with his team, Tino Costa finally decided in 2004 to move to mainland France to RC Paris . For him it was a big change from amateur football in the hot-weather coastal town to the semi-professionals in the cold European city, who played in the third division . He was able to establish himself quickly and played almost 30 games on the grid in his first 2004/05 season.

In the following season 2005/06 the Argentine moved to third division club FC Pau in southwest France. Tino Costa spent two seasons there and played over 60 league games.

He then moved to the Mediterranean coast of southern France for FC Sète . Where, in his own opinion, the Argentine achieved his ultimate football breakthrough by relocating left-back Tino Costa from left wing to central midfield.

HSC Montpellier

After convincing performances at FC Sète in the third division, he received offers from several French second division clubs. The Argentine decided to go to Montpellier , 35 kilometers away , and switched to HSC Montpellier in summer 2008 . In his first season (2008/09) Tino Costa became a key player, among other things with his eight goals scored and over ten goal preparations. On the last day of the match he and his team came third, tied on points with fourth-placed US Boulogne , against second-placed Racing Strasbourg , who were two points ahead. The Argentine shot with a free kick and set up a goal in the 2-1 win over Strasbourg. Tino Costa secured his team the runner-up in Ligue 2 and promotion to Ligue 1 , the top French division. In addition, he moved by the brought about defeat for Racing Strasbourg to fourth place and therefore did not rise.

In the following season 2009/10 the Argentine and his teammate Víctor Hugo Montaño caused a sensation in the first division with the dark blue oranges as a promoted team and played for a time for the French championship . At the end of the season it was enough for fifth place and qualified for the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League .

He completed 70 competitive games for the dark blue oranges in two years, scored 15 goals and 18 assists.

Tino Costa fighting for the ball, right in the picture (2013).

Valencia CF

As a high performer at HSC Montpellier, Tino Costa aroused the interest of Valencia CF and signed him for the 2010/11 season for a transfer fee of 6.5 million euros . He signed a four-year contract with Los Chés .

In September 2010, the Argentine celebrated his European debut and his first goal for the Valencians in the UEFA Champions League with a spectacular long-range goal to lead Bursaspor 1-0, which ended 4-0. Later in November 2010 Tino Costa celebrated his first league game in the Spanish Primera División against Getafe CF. This goal was also the 4,000th goal of Valencia CF in the top division of Spain.

In the following season 2011/12 he again reached third place in the Spanish championship with the Los Chés . In addition, they made it to the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey and the UEFA Europa League and were eliminated in both cup competitions against the subsequent cup winners FC Barcelona and Atlético Madrid .

The Argentine made 115 competitive appearances for the Valencians in three seasons and scored 16 goals.

Spartak Moscow and loan stations in Italy

In June 2013, Tino Costa moved to Spartak Moscow in the Russian Premier League for around seven million euros for the 2013/14 season . He played 35 competitive games for Spartak and scored three goals.

In the winter transfer period of the 2014/15 season , Tino Costa moved to Northwest Italy on loan for twelve months to the Italian first division club CFC Genoa in January 2015 . In the following winter transfer period ( 2015/16 season ) he switched again on loan in January 2016, but within Italy to the Tuscan capital Florence to ACF Fiorentina for the rest of the season, until the end of June 2016.

Return to South America and an interlude in Spain

After the ACF Fiorentina did not take up the purchase option for the Argentine at the end of the 2015/16 season, he moved to his home country Argentina to the long-awaited Argentine first division club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro for the Tino Costa completed twelve competitive games.

For the 2017/18 season , the 32-year-old Argentinean moved back to Europe for the Spanish second division UD Almería in August 2017 and signed a one-year contract with an option for another year. Since his engagement lasted a season, as 18th placed, he just escaped relegation to the third division by playing 15 competitive games and scoring two goals. Otherwise he struggled with injuries to the muscles , meniscus and thigh .

After the season in Spain, Tino Costa returned to Argentina in July 2018 and moved to San Miguel de Tucumán to the Argentine first division promoted CA San Martín de Tucumán .

After relegation in 2019 with CA San Martín de Tucumán in the second division ( Primera B Nacional ), he moved to the Colombian record champions Atlético Nacional as a supplementary player in June 2019 at the age of 34 .

In the national team

In October 2010 Tino Costa was nominated for the first time in the Argentine national team , where he was not used in the international match. At the beginning of June 2011, the 26-year-old Argentinean made his international debut in a friendly against Nigeria under national coach Sergio Batista . This was one of his few international appearances due to very strong competition in his position.

successes

Trivia

  • The Argentine owes his nickname "Tino" in part to his grandfather, he resembled the soap opera character Faustino in a television series. His mother didn't like this and shortened it accordingly.
  • Tino Costa has a tattoo in the shape of Diego Maradona's autograph .

Web links

Commons : Tino Costa  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Tino Costa in the database of weltfussball.de
  • Tino Costa in the soccerway.com database
  • Tino Costa in the database of bdfutbol.com (English)
  • Tino Costa in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Costa: My sacrifices have all paid off. (No longer available online.) In: FIFA .com. March 25, 2011, archived from the original on January 22, 2013 ; accessed on March 25, 2011 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g UEFA .com: Costa's rocky road to the top (January 21, 2013) . Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c d Atlético Nacional : Club Atlético Nacional SA announces the commitment of Tino Costa (Spanish) on June 11, 2019.
  4. ^ Alberto Costa. Características. In: atlnacional.com.co. Atlético Nacional , accessed September 1, 2019 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Costa: "Would give me a chance". (No longer available online.) In: FIFA .com. March 25, 2011, archived from the original on January 23, 2013 ; Retrieved March 25, 2011 .
  6. ↑ a b c d e Guadeloupe 2003/04 in the RSSSF database . Retrieved January 13, 2020.
  7. ↑ a b c d e f UEFA .com: Costa joins Valencia (July 1, 2010) . Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  8. ↑ a b c d e UEFA .com - Tino Costa (English) of 25 January 2011th
  9. ↑ Montpellier's fairy tales - Girard took the chance. (No longer available online.) In: FIFA .com. January 11, 2010; Archived from the original on January 23, 2013 ; Retrieved January 11, 2010 .
  10. ↑ a b Tino Costa in the Ligue1.com database . Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  11. ↑ Tino Costa in the Ligue1.com database (English)
  12. ↑ Montpellier makes surprise a habit - Belhanda impresses. (No longer available online.) In: FIFA .com. October 14, 2011, archived from the original on July 8, 2012 ; Retrieved October 14, 2011 .
  13. ↑ UEFA .com: Montpellier is back (July 27, 2010) . Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  14. ↑ a b c d e Tino Costa in the database of transfermarkt.de . Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  15. ↑ UEFA .com - Costa proves his value to Valencia (English) of September 15, 2010.
  16. ↑ a b Tino Costa in the AS .com database (Spanish)
  17. ↑ a b UEFA .com: Spartak brings Tino Costa from Valencia (June 5, 2013) . Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  18. ↑ Al'berto Fakundo (Tino) Kosta in the Premjer-Liga database (English)
  19. ↑ a b ACF Fiorentina : ACF Fiorentina announces the signing of Tino Costa on loan (English) of 21 January 2016th
  20. ↑ UD Almería : UD Almería announces the commitment of Tino Costa (Spanish) from August 1st, 2017.
  21. ↑ L'Équipe : Alberto Facundo Costa - Player Profile -… 1ère sélection: (Abuja) Nigeria - Argentine: 4-1, le 01 juin 2011… , accessed on August 26, 2018
  22. ^ Palmarès - Trophées UNFP du Football - Déjà 25 ans D'Histoire. Season 2008/2009 - Ligue 2 - équipe type. Union Nationale des Footballeurs Professionnels , accessed on September 1, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Costa, Tino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Costa, Alberto Facundo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Las Flores , Argentina