Cândido Costa

Cândido Alves Moreira da Costa (born 30 April 1981) is a Portuguese former footballer who played mainly as a right back.

Cândido Costa
Personal information
Full name Cândido Alves Moreira da Costa
Date of birth (1981-04-30) 30 April 1981
Place of birth São João da Madeira, Portugal
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Wingback
Youth career
1990–1996 Sanjoanense
1996–1999 Benfica
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1999 Salgueiros 9 (0)
2000–2001 Porto B 19 (2)
2000–2004 Porto 33 (3)
2003 → Vitória Setúbal (loan) 12 (0)
2003–2004 → Derby County (loan) 34 (1)
2004–2006 Braga 29 (0)
2006–2010 Belenenses 79 (1)
2010–2011 Rapid București 12 (0)
2011–2012 Arouca 0 (0)
2012 Tondela 2 (0)
2013–2014 São João Ver 12 (0)
2014–2015 Ovarense 17 (2)
Total 258 (9)
National team
1997 Portugal U15 6 (1)
1996–1998 Portugal U16 14 (2)
1998 Portugal U17 8 (0)
1998–1999 Portugal U18 18 (5)
2001 Portugal U20 4 (1)
2000–2004 Portugal U21 25 (5)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

He amassed Primeira Liga totals of 162 games and four goals over ten seasons, representing in the competition Salgueiros, Porto, Vitória de Setúbal, Braga and Belenenses. He also competed professionally in England and Romania.

Club career

Costa was born in São João da Madeira, Aveiro District. Having started his football career with the youth teams of S.L. Benfica, he switched to FC Porto after a brief stint with S.C. Salgueiros (where he made his Primeira Liga debut, in 1999–2000). In his first full season at Porto he contributed with 18 games and two goals in the league, but the title was lost in the penultimate round to neighbours Boavista FC.

After not being able to fully break into the first team (having also served a six-month loan stint at Vitória F.C. and a full one with Derby County of the Football League Championship, the latter in the 2003–04 campaign,[1] where he scored once against West Bromwich Albion),[2] Costa joined S.C. Braga for 2004–05, also not being successful in two seasons – a combined 29 league appearances.

Costa, who had started his career as a winger, joined C.F. Os Belenenses in the 2006–07 season, ultimately reconverting into the right back position[3] and becoming an undisputed starter for the Lisbon-based team, with nearly 75 league matches in his first three years, scoring against F.C. Paços de Ferreira on 18 March 2007 in a 2–0 away win.[4]

After only appearing in 11 games in the 2009–10 season due to constant injuries, with Belenenses returning to the second level, 29-year-old Costa had his second abroad experience, signing with Liga I side FC Rapid București.

Honours

Porto

References
  1. "Porto winger joins Rams". BBC Sport. 8 July 2003. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
  2. "West Brom 1–1 Derby". BBC Sport. 26 December 2003. Retrieved 29 May 2010.
  3. Pereira, David (27 September 2019). "Silas na "cadeira de sonho" 30 anos após ter recusado ser emprestado pelo Sporting" [Silas in "dream chair" 30 years after refusing to be loaned by Sporting]. Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  4. "Paços perde em casa" [Paços lose at home]. Correio da Manhã (in Portuguese). 19 March 2007. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  5. "FC Porto-Marítimo, 2–0 (Pena 13, Alenitchev 78)". Record (in Portuguese). 10 June 2001. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  6. "FC Porto-Trofense, 2–0: Ser sério e ganhar cedo em dia de falhar golos" [FC Porto-Trofense, 2–0: Serious display and early win on day of missed goals]. Record (in Portuguese). 25 November 2002. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  7. "Polonia-FC Porto, 2–0 (Lukasiewicz, 67, Kus 80)". Record (in Portuguese). 3 October 2002. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
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