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Diego Costa is a Brazilian soccer player who has competed at professional levels throughout his career. He is notable for his participation in association football, one of the world's most widely played sports.
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- Soccer
- Position
- Centre-Forward
- Nationality
- Spain
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Diego
- Family name
- Costa
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Lagarto
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Participant in
- 2018 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.
- Position played
- forward
- League
- Premier League
- Country for sport
- Spain
- Mass
- 81
- Image
- Iran and Spain match at the FIFA World Cup 23.jpg
- Height
- 185
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- sport number
- 19
- Commons category
- Diego Costa
- date of birth
- 1988-10-07
- second family name in Spanish name
- Costa
- pseudonym
- E
- birth name
- Diego da Silva Costa
- name in native language
- Diego Costa
- start of work period
- 2005-00-00
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 1
- total goals in career
- 2
- social media followers
- 556659
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Encyclopedic overview
Diego da Silva Costa ( Spanish: [ˈdjeɣo ða ˈsilβa ˈkosta], Brazilian Portuguese: [dʒiˈeɡu dɐ ˈsiwvɐ ˈkɔstɐ]; born 7 October 1988) is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. Born in Brazil, he represented the Spain national team.
Costa began his career in his native Brazil before joining Braga in Portugal in 2006, aged 17. He never played for the club but spent time on loan at Penafiel, and signed with La Liga club Atlético Madrid the following year. Over the next two seasons, he had loan periods with Braga, Celta Vigo, and Albacete. His form earned him a move to fellow La Liga club Real Valladolid in 2009, where he spent one season, finishing as their top goalscorer, before returning to Atlético Madrid. Costa struggled to maintain a regular starting role with Atlético, and spent more time on loan, this time at Rayo Vallecano, where he finished as the club's highest scorer that season.
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