Costa Manuel Yes

Da Costa's father is Portuguese , his mother is half Moroccan , half French.

Yes, Costa began his career at the Nancy Club. In the 2005/06 season, he made his debut at the base of the club and spent 10 matches in Ligue 1 ^[2] , as well as one match in the semifinal of the French League Cup , in which he scored his only goal in the Nancy team, hitting the gates of the Le Mans club ". In May 2006, he played with the Portuguese youth team at a tournament in Toulon . After the Portuguese won the tournament, yes Costa wanted to buy several clubs. Among the candidates for the purchase of a defender were the English club Newcastle United , the French Paris Saint-Germain and Bordeaux .

Having chosen from several offers, Costa joined the Dutch club PSV to play in the Champions League . With PSV da Costa signed a five-year contract, and the Dutch club paid Nancy 1 million euros for the Portuguese transfer. In the Netherlands, yes, Costa spent a season and a half, playing in 16 championship matches and 4 Champions League matches, in which he made his debut on September 12, 2006 in a match with the English Liverpool . In the middle of the 2007/08 season, rumors appeared that Da Costa would be joining one of the Italian clubs; among the applicants were called Juventus , Inter and Milan .

January 29, 2008 da Costa was bought by the Fiorentina club for 4.5 million euros by signing a five-year contract. In the main part of Fiorentina da Costa made his debut only 8 months later - on September 14 in a match with Napoli . On January 30, 2009, Costa was rented for six months by the Italian club Sampdoria ^[3] , which included two games - February 15 with Juventus in the Italian Championship and February 26 in the UEFA Cup match with Metalist from Kharkov . After the season ended, Costa returned to Fiorentina.

August 31, 2009 da Costa signed a three-year contract with the English club West Ham United ; the transfer amount was not disclosed, but it is known that, in addition to monetary compensation, Fiorentina received West Ham midfielder Savio Nsereko for the conversion to Costa ^[4] . On September 22, Da Costa made his club debut in the League Cup match with Bolton Wanderers ^[5] , and on September 28, Manuel played his first match in the English championship with Manchester City ^[6] . On November 21, Da Costa scored his first goal for the club, hitting the Hull City goal (the match ended 3–3) ^[7] . In December, the Portuguese received a proposal to move from Spartak Moscow, but rejected it, since the Russian championship was not “attractive enough” for him ^[8] .

June 21, 2011 da Costa moved to the Moscow Lokomotiv , signing a contract for 4 years ^[9] ; the transfer amount amounted to 1.5 million euros ^[10] . According to the president of the club, Olga Smorodskaya , the Portuguese footballer was bought to replace Marco Bache, who left the team ^[11] . On September 10, the Portuguese scored the first goals for Lokomotiv. His double (the first in his career) in the match against Zenit brought Lokomotiv a 4–2 victory ^[12] .

On August 31, 2012, Manuel da Costa was leased for a year to the Portuguese Nacional ^[13] . Upon returning to Lokomotiv, he was sold to the Turkish Sivasspor ^[14] . The contract with the player was designed for three years.

On August 18, 2015, yes, Costa switched to the Piraeus Olympiacos ^[15] .

Manuel da Costa played for the Portuguese youth team from 2006 to 2008. In November 2006, in March 2007 and in August 2011, Costa was called up to the Portuguese national team , but did not enter the field.

Yes, Costa chose to play for Portugal because he feels Portuguese, not French, despite the fact that he does not speak Portuguese very well ^[16] .

May 23, 2014 da Costa made his debut in the national team of Morocco in a friendly match against Mozambique .

• Champion of the Netherlands : 2007, 2008
• Champion of Greece : 2016

In January 2011, Da Costa was accused of sexual harassment and attempted rape of a woman in the Faces nightclub in Ilford (a suburban area of ​​London) on the night of October 17, 2010 ^{[17] [18]} . The footballer was taken into custody and then released from prison on bail. ^[19] At the hearing, the football player pleaded not guilty to sexual harassment, but confirmed the fact of the attack on the woman. On April 18, at the second trial, yes Costa was again released on bail until a new hearing ^[20] . The jury trial, held on September 16, 2011, acquitted Costa, but ordered him to pay £ 250 to the plaintiffs because he hit the woman during self-defense ^[21] .

The football player has several tattoos on his hands, the design of each of which is associated with the impressions of yes Costa from life in a particular country. One of the tattoos was made by an Italian master, the other by French, the third by English. Also, Costa plans to get a tattoo from a Russian master ^[22] .

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