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This article is about the football striker. For other people with similar name, see Diego Costa (disambiguation).
In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is da Silva and the second or paternal family name is Costa.
Diego Costa
Costa playing for Atlético Madrid in 2013.
Personal information
Full name Diego da Silva Costa[1]
Date of birth (1988-10-07) 7 October 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth Lagarto, Brazil
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[2]
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Chelsea
Number 19
Youth career
2004–2006 Barcelona EC
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006 Braga 0 (0)
2006 → Penafiel (loan) 13 (5)
2007–2009 Atlético Madrid 0 (0)
2007 → Braga (loan) 7 (0)
2007–2008 → Celta (loan) 30 (5)
2008–2009 → Albacete (loan) 35 (9)
2009–2010 Valladolid 34 (8)
2010–2014 Atlético Madrid 94 (43)
2012 → Rayo Vallecano (loan) 16 (10)
2014– Chelsea 0 (0)
International career‡
2013 Brazil 2 (0)
2014– Spain 4 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:39, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18 June 2014

Diego da Silva Costa (Spanish: [ˈdjeɣo ða ˈsilβa ˈkosta], Portuguese: [ˈdʒjeɡu dɐ ˈsiwvɐ ˈkɔstɐ]; born 7 October 1988) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for English club Chelsea as a striker.

He began his career with Braga in Portugal, and was signed by Atlético Madrid in 2007. Costa was loaned him back to Braga, and then to Celta and Albacete before being sold to Valladolid in 2009. He returned to Atlético the following season and went on to become a key part of their attack, scoring 27 goals as they won the league title in 2014, and then joined Chelsea for £32 million.

Internationally, Costa played twice for Brazil in 2013, but later declared his desire to represent Spain, having been granted Spanish citizenship in September 2013. He made his début for his adopted nation in March 2014, and was selected for that year's World Cup.

Club career

Early years

Born in Lagarto, Sergipe, Brazil, Costa started his career at Barcelona Esportivo Capela in São Paulo, having been limited to street football until the age of 16.[3] His first professional adventure was in Portugal as he signed in February 2006 with S.C. Braga,[4] after which he spent the following months with the club's reserves.

In the 2006 summer Costa was loaned to F.C. Penafiel, in the second division.[5] In December, however, he was sold to Spain's Atlético Madrid, for €1.5 million and 50% of the player's rights.[6] He remained on loan at Braga until the end of the season, scoring his first goal for the team in the UEFA Cup, a 1–0 win at Parma FC (2–0 on aggregate); in the following two years he would be again loaned, on both occasions to Segunda División sides, starting with Celta de Vigo then with Albacete Balompié, appearing and scoring regularly.[7]

Valladolid

On 8 July 2009 Costa was sold to Real Valladolid as part of the deal that sent goalkeeper Sergio Asenjo in the opposite direction, with the transfer including a buy-back option that could be activated by Atlético at the end of the season.[8]

He started strong for the Castile and León side, scoring six times in his first 12 games,[9] but only found the net once in the following 5½ months as the campaign eventually ended in relegation from La Liga.

Atlético Madrid

2010–11 season

In June 2010 Costa returned to the Colchoneros, initially as a backup to Sergio Agüero and Diego Forlán – Atlético also paid an undisclosed sum to Braga to buy all the residual 30% economic rights (the former also had to pay an exceed of €833,000 in agent's fees to Gestifute[10]). On 26 September, benefitting from injury to the Argentine, who was sitting on the substitutes bench, he scored the game's only goal at home against Real Zaragoza.[11] On 3 April of the following year, already as a starter after manager Quique Flores demoted the Uruguayan from his position, he netted all of his team's goals in a 3–2 win at CA Osasuna.[12]

2011–12 season

Costa on loan at Rayo Vallecano, celebrating with the goalscorer, Alhassane Bangoura, in a match against Levante, on 19 February 2012.

In July 2011, during Atlético's pre-season, Costa suffered a serious knee injury, going on to miss the majority of the season.[13] On 23 January 2012 he was loaned to fellow league club Rayo Vallecano, until June;[14] he scored four goals in his first three appearances, including two in a 5–3 away win against Levante UD,[15] eventually finishing his loan spell with 10 goals from 16 games.

2012–13 season

During December 2012, Costa was involved in several on-field altercations in two separate matches, starting in a 0–2 local derby loss against Real Madrid where he avoided disciplinary action, and being sent off in the following game at FC Viktoria Plzeň, for the campaign's Europa League (0–1 defeat, he eventually was handed a four-match ban by UEFA[16]).[17][18] This, however, did not deter coach Diego Simeone from continuing to start him, and he responded by netting three goals in two home contests, against Deportivo de La Coruña in the league (6–0)[19] and Getafe CF in the season's Copa del Rey (3–0).[20]

After the Spanish Cup semifinals against Sevilla FC, Costa took his goal tally in the competition to seven in as many matches,[21] having scored three times in the tie: in the first leg he netted two penalties in a 2–1 win[22] and, in the second at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium, scored one after an individual effort and assisted Radamel Falcao in the other, also being involved in situations which resulted in two opposing players – Gary Medel and Geoffrey Kondogbia – being sent off in the 2–2 draw.[23]

Costa scored Atlético's equalizing goal in the domestic cup final clash against city-rivals Real Madrid on 17 May 2013,[24] contributing to the 2–1 triumph – the first in 25 games in a streak stretching back to 1999 – and the tenth win in the tournament, confirmed by Miranda's extra-time header. Thus, he became the topscorer of the tournament with eight successful strikes, one ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo.[25]

2013–14 season

Costa playing against Almería, on 14 September 2013.

In August 2013 Costa was heavily linked with a move to Liverpool, who allegedly matched his release clause of €25 million and offered him three times his salary at Atlético.[26] However, he chose to stay at the club and renewed his contract until 2018, while also doubling his wages;[27] he celebrated this a few days later in the first match of the new season, scoring a brace in a 3–1 win at Sevilla.[28]

On 24 September Costa netted both goals in a 2–1 home triumph over Osasuna, to help his team stay level on points with league leaders FC Barcelona through six games.[29] Four days later, in the Madrid derby, he scored the only goal of the game to record a second win over Real at the Santiago Bernabéu in under five months.[30]

On 22 October 2013 Costa marked his UEFA Champions League début with two goals against FK Austria Wien, the first coming after a fine individual effort in an eventual 3–0 group stage away win.[31] On 19 February of the following year, in the first knockout round's first leg, he scored the game's only goal at A.C. Milan, netting seven minutes from time after a corner kick from Gabi;[32] he added a further two in the second match, helping to a 4–1 victory that put Atlético into the quarter-finals for the first time in 17 years.[33]

On 30 April 2014 Costa won and converted a penalty in the second leg of the Champions League semi-final against Chelsea, as Atlético won 3–1 at Stamford Bridge and advanced to the final of the competition for the first time since 1974.[34] He finished the league season with 27 league goals to be the third highest scorer,[35] and the team won the title for the first time since 1996, but he was substituted after 16 minutes of the last match of the season against Barcelona due to a hamstring injury.[36] Atlético sought to cure this injury for the upcoming Champions League final against Real Madrid by sending him to Belgrade for treatment with a horse placenta,[37] and he was included in the starting line-up for the decisive match, but left the pitch after eight minutes in an eventual 1–4 loss;[38] manager Diego Simeone later admitted a personal mistake in selecting the player to start the final despite his recent injury.[39]

Chelsea

Having completed his medical in June,[40][41] Chelsea announced on 1 July 2014 that they "can confirm an agreement has been reached with Atletico Madrid for the transfer of Diego Costa" after they had agreed to meet the £32 million buy-out clause in Costa's contract.[42][43][44] On 15 July, Chelsea confirmed the completion of the signing of Costa, who signed a five-year contract on a salary of £150,000 a week.[45][46] Costa said: "I am very happy to sign for Chelsea. Everybody knows it is a big club in a very competitive league, and I am very excited to get started in England with a fantastic coach and team-mates. Having played against Chelsea last season I know the high quality of the squad I am joining".[45] Following the departure of former Chelsea striker Demba Ba, Costa inherited his number 19 jersey, the same number he wore at the 2014 World Cup for Spain, and previously at Atlético.

Costa scored on his Chelsea debut on 27 July 2014, running onto a through ball from Cesc Fàbregas in a 2–1 friendly win against Slovene club Olimpija.[47]

International career

On 5 March 2013, Costa was called up by Brazilian national team coach Luiz Felipe Scolari for friendlies with Italy in Geneva and Russia in London, both taking place late in that month.[48] He made his début in the first match, replacing Fred midway through the second half of the 2–2 draw.[49]

In September 2013, the Royal Spanish Football Federation made an official request to FIFA for permission to call up Costa for the Spanish national team.[50] He had been granted Spanish nationality earlier in the summer.[51]

On 29 October 2013, Costa declared that he wished to play international football for Spain, sending a letter to the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF).[52] Following the news, Scolari commented: "A Brazilian player who refuses to wear the shirt of the Brazilian national team and compete in a World Cup in your country is automatically withdrawn. He is turning his back on a dream of millions, to represent our national team, the five-time champions in a World Cup in Brazil."[53]

The Brazilian Football Confederation judicial director, Carlos Eugênio Lopes, said "It's obvious that the reason he made that choice was financial. The chairman [of the CBF, José Maria Marin] authorised me to open a legal action at the Justice Ministry requesting that he loses his Brazilian citizenship, which Diego Costa has rejected... The chairman told me that Costa has proved he's not fit to be part of the Scolari family, that he would contaminate the family because he's not committed to Brazil, but to Spain. He rejected his Brazilian citizenship. Marin has asked me to study the situation deeply in order to keep him from ever playing for Spain. He told me that, from now on, Costa is 'persona non grata' at the national team and that the players themselves wouldn't welcome him because of that episode".[54]

On 28 February 2014, Vicente del Bosque included Costa in the Spain squad for a friendly against Italy.[55] He finally made his début on 5 March, playing the full 90 minutes at his club ground the Vicente Calderón Stadium as the hosts won 1–0.[56]

Costa was named in Spain's 30-man provisional squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup,[57] as well as the final list which was named on 31 May.[58] He returned from the injury which had ended his club season by starting in a warm-up game against El Salvador, winning a penalty in a 2–0 victory.[59] In the first match of the tournament, against the Netherlands, he again won a penalty, conceded by Stefan de Vrij and converted by Xabi Alonso for a 1–0 lead but in an eventual 1–5 defeat;[60] he was booed by Brazilian fans during the match, to which he reacted by saying "I have confirmed that Spain is my country and the Spanish people are behind me, the criticism of my decision does not affect me".[61] Costa then started in a 0–2 loss to Chile making little impact as he was substituted for Fernando Torres for the second consecutive match, and Spain were eliminated.[62] He was an unused substitute in the team's third match, a 3–0 defeat of Australia.[63]

Honours

Club

Atlético Madrid

Individual

Statistics

As of match played 17 May 2014[64][65]

Club

Club Season League Cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Penafiel 2006–07 Liga de Honra 13 5 1 0 — 14 5
Braga 2006–07 Primeira Liga 7 0 1 0 2[a] 1 10 1
Celta 2007–08 Segunda División 30 5 1 0 — 31 5
Albacete 2008–09 Segunda División 35 9 1 0 — 36 9
Valladolid 2009–10 La Liga 34 8 2 1 — 36 9
Atlético Madrid 2010–11 La Liga 28 6 5 1 6[a] 1 39 8
Rayo Vallecano 2011–12 La Liga 16 10 0 0 — 16 10
Atlético Madrid 2012–13 La Liga 31 10 8 8 5[a] 2 44 20
2013–14 La Liga 35 27 8[b] 1 9[c] 8 52 36
Atlético Madrid total 94 43 21 10 20 11 135 64
Chelsea 2014–15 Premier League 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Career total 229 80 27 11 22 12 278 103
  1. ^ a b c Appearances in UEFA Europa League
  2. ^ Includes 2 appearances in Supercopa de España
  3. ^ Appearances in UEFA Champions League

International

As of match played 18 June 2014
Brazil
Year Apps Goals
2013 2 0
Total 2 0
Spain
Year Apps Goals
2014 4 0
Total 4 0

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