For modern football, it is not surprising that large clubs with money, such as Real Madrid, Chelsea (London), Manchester City, are hunting for the best players. Diego was hunted not only by clubs, but also by national teams, and the strongest: Spain and Brazil. Not every player is given such a difficult choice. That is why the article will focus on such a player as Diego Costa. His biography is full of ups and downs, so we can say that the football player is very strong in spirit.
The childhood and youth of the football player
The story of the transition of Diego Costa to a professional level in football is somewhat reminiscent of the plot of the film “Goal”. He was born in Brazil and, as is customary in this country, chased the ball through the streets with peers around the clock. At the age of 17, he played for the amateur team of his city and was spotted by one of the scouts of the Portuguese “Braga”. What else can a 17-year-old guy who, without exaggeration, breathe football, dream of? Deciding not to scatter gifts of fate, he immediately packed his things and moved to Portugal, signing his first professional contract with the Braga football club.
Football player career sunrise
After he moved to Braga, he wasn’t particularly counting on a player, realizing that his experience was close to the “0” mark, which did not please the Portuguese coaches very much, so it was decided to immediately lease it to the club of the second Portuguese league “Penafiel”. After spending years there, he marked his extraordinary game and was spotted by scouts of the club Atletico Madrid, who bought an 18-year-old guy and immediately returned him for rent to Braga. There the footballer did not shine, having spent only 7 matches, half of which came on as a substitute, and did not mark with any goals scored.
His wanderings continued for a very long time. In the 2007-2008 season, he played for the Spanish “Celta”, where he spent 30 matches, scoring only 5 goals, and this is a very weak indicator for the striker “Segunda”.
The following season, he also played in the second league, but already for a club called “Albacete”. Here his statistics and game improved a bit - 39 matches and 9 goals, followed by a full transfer to the pretty good Pyrenees club “Rayo Vallecano”. In this team, he again managed to “shoot”, and for the second time he received an offer to transfer to the Atletico Madrid. At first, his business was not going very well, and in 2012 he again spent on loan at the club “Rayo Vallecano”, scoring 10 goals in 16 matches. Returning to Atlético, he showed himself to be a completely different footballer.
Becoming a star
Starting from the 2012-2013 season, all of football in Europe has started talking about a striker named Diego Costa. His biography was very impressive, because he visited so many clubs. Now he was the main striker of the "mattress" and the third force in the scorer race between Messi and Ronaldo.
For his first season, Diego Costa played 44 matches in all tournaments and scored 20 goals. Since then it has become clear who is ready to push the most experienced David Vilya out of the starting lineup. The next season was the best not only for him, but also for the club Atletico Madrid. Not only did they manage to break into the Champions League final, where they did not have enough to win the trophy and keep the winning score 1-0, they also managed to break the hegemony of the Catalan “Barcelona” and fellow countrymen from Real Madrid in domestic championship by winning the trophy. Diego Costa went out in every match, in addition to those where he was serving a suspension, and spent 52 matches in a season, scoring 36 goals! This is an indicator of the top level striker.
Disputes in the national team
Ever since the football player Diego Costa became interested in the leading clubs of the “Old World”, everyone was intrigued by the question of his call to the national team. The difficulty was that, despite the fact that the footballer was born in Brazil, at the time of the peak of his career, when it was time to challenge him to the national team, he had dual citizenship: Spain and Brazil. The football player had a very difficult choice, but for the hospitality that the Iberian Peninsula gave him , he focused on the winners of the last two European Championships and the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Since Costa began his appearances for Furia Rocha, he has played exactly 7 matches. The football player is subjected to strong criticism, because for these matches he managed to score only one goal. Obviously this is not expected of him.
Diego Costa: Chelsea
In the 2014-2015 season, Diego moved from Madrid to London for a very large sum, where he was facing performances for the local Chelsea. From the very beginning, he established himself as a driven striker, capable of deciding the outcome of the game in a split second. Having spent only 24 matches, since the beginning of the season he managed to score 19 goals, scoring in almost every match. Even a skeptic like Jose Mourinho admits that Costa is an extra-class forward and does not subject him to any particular criticism.
During the performance, he even managed to become the best player of the month in the Premier League, and not every football player deserves this award. Chelsea have already announced ahead of their victory in the English Premier League, and therefore, in his first year as a member of the “aristocracy”, the Brazilian Spaniard won the prestigious trophy. Diego Costa is a world-class footballer.