Angelo Esmael da Costa Júnior (born 12 November 1983) is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a

goalkeeper In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting o ...

. He was known as Júnior Costa in Brazil, and as Angelo Da Costa (or simply Da Costa) in Italy and the

UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competit ...

Career

Santo André

Da Costa played 8 out of 11

2004 Copa do Brasil The Copa do Brasil 2004 was the 16th staging of the Copa do Brasil. The competition started on February 4, 2004 and concluded on June 30, 2004 with the second leg of the final, held at the Estádio do Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, in which Santo ...

matches, ahead

Júlio César Martins Júlio is a Portuguese masculine given name. The equivalent in Spanish is Julio (given name), Julio. The diminutive form is Julinho, as in Júlio César Teixeira known as Julinho, a Brazilian footballer. See also

*Julio (disambiguation) *Juli ...

. He signed an improved contract with Santo André of Brasileiro Série B in April 2005, which run until December 2008. At the

2005 Copa Libertadores The 2005 Copa Libertadores was the 46th edition of the Copa Libertadores. The champion also qualified for the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship. It was the first time ever that two teams from the same country reached the final. This year's tourn ...

he was Júlio César Martins' backup, except in one game against Cerro Porteño. He was the backup keeper for

Marcelo Bonan Marcelo Bonan (born 27 May 1981) is a Brazilian footballer. Biography Bonan left for Campeonato Brasileiro Série C side Nacional (AM) in July 2005. He was the first choice keeper ahead Ângelo. However, he was on the bench in the quarter-fi ...

2006 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B The Campeonato Brasileiro Série B 2006, namely the second division of the Brazilian League, was contested by 20 teams. The tournament started in April 2006 and ended on November 25 of 2006. The 20 teams played home and away matches against each o ...

. He made his league debut on 25 August 2006, replacing Bonan in the 23rd minute.

Varese & Ancona

In January 2008 da Costa left for Italian

Serie C2 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione was the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. Usually it consisted of 36 teams, but in the 2011–12 season, there were 41 teams divided geographically into two divisions of 2 ...

side

Varese Varese ( , , or ; lmo, label= Varesino, Varés ; la, Baretium; archaic german: Väris) is a city and ''comune'' in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, north-west of Milan. The population of Varese in 2018 has reached 80,559. It is the c ...

. During the summer of 2008, he signed for

Ancona Ancona (, also , ) is a city and a seaport in the Marche region in central Italy, with a population of around 101,997 . Ancona is the capital of the province of Ancona and of the region. The city is located northeast of Rome, on the Adriatic S ...

for an undisclosed fee.

Sampdoria

Da Costa was given permission to negotiate with

Sampdoria Unione Calcio Sampdoria, commonly referred to as Sampdoria (), is an Italian professional football club based in Genoa. The club was formed in 1946 from the merger of two existing sports clubs whose roots can be traced back to the 1890s, ...

in July, days before the expel of

from professional league due to

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. He became the second keeper of the team, behind another new signing,

Gianluca Curci Gianluca Curci (; born 12 July 1985) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper, most recently for Hammarby IF in the Swedish Allsvenskan. Curci has previously played for Roma, Siena, Sampdoria, Bologna, 1. FSV Mainz 05 ...

, as the team released

Luca Castellazzi Luca Castellazzi (born 19 July 1975) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He serves as the goalkeeper coach of Milan young team under 17. Club career Early career Castellazzi began his career at Monza. He the ...

Matteo Guardalben Matteo Guardalben (born 5 June 1974) is an Italian former professional football goalkeeper. Club career Guardalben was born in Nogara, Province of Verona. After five seasons with Parma, Guardalben (along with Nicola Mora and Matuzalém) joined P ...

, sold Antonio Mirante, did not buy

Mario Cassano Mario Cassano (born 8 October 1983) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Club career Born in Vizzolo Predabissi, Lombardy, Cassano started his senior career at Serie D side Voghera, located at near-by provin ...

and failed to buy Marco Storari. He was assigned shirt number 1 previously owned by Castellazzi and made his first start in Serie A on 8 May 2011, the

Derby della Lanterna The Derby della Lanterna, Italian for the "Derby of the Lantern", is Genoa's local derby, played by Genoa C.F.C and U.C. Sampdoria. It takes place at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris, which both clubs share. Background The derby's name is derived from t ...

. That match was the second last match of round 36 (and was the third last round); Lecce had already secured three points before the kick off of the derby and eventually Samp lost 1–2 through a late goal by Mauro Boselli. Sampdoria dropped into the relegation zone by two points short with Lecce. In the next round he remained as starting keeper, as Curci remained unfit, He conceded two goals, the first by Lecce native Fabrizio Miccoli as Samp lost to

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1–2 and were relegated, while Lecce won the local derby against

Bari Bari ( , ; nap, label= Barese, Bare ; lat, Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy a ...

. Da Costa played 15 games in

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. Initially the backup of

Sergio Romero Sergio Germán Romero (; born 22 February 1987) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Boca Juniors. He has also played for the Argentina national team. Romero made his debut with Racing Club in the Argentine Pr ...

, he was made first-choice goalkeeper after Romero's injury. In the promotion playoffs, Romero was on international duty and missed the first rounds, and da Costa played the matches contributing to a win against

Sassuolo Sassuolo (; egl, label=Modenese dialect, Modenese, Sasól ) is an Italian town, ''comune'', and industrial centre of the Province of Modena in Emilia-Romagna. Standing on the right bank of the river Secchia some southwest of Modena, the town ...

. Romero temporarily returned to Samp for the first leg of the finals on 6 June, however Romero left again for the return leg. Da Costa once again became first-choice goalkeeper for the return leg in Varese's

Stadio Franco Ossola The Stadio Franco Ossola (also called Luigi Ganna Velodrome) is a sports stadium and velodrome currently in use by the football team A.S.D. Città di Varese. Constructed in 1925, and originally named the ''Stadio del Littorio'', the stadium was r ...

Bologna

On 20 January 2015, da Costa signed with

Bologna F.C. 1909 Bologna Football Club 1909, commonly referred to as Bologna (), is an Italian professional football club based in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna that plays in Serie A, the top flight of Italian football. The club have won seven top-flight titles, two Co ...

. On 8 July 2015, he signed a new three-year contract. Junior Da Costa

Career statistics

;Note: ¹ Three matches in the promotion playoffs

Honours

Copa do Brasil The Copa do Brasil ( en, Brazil Cup) is a knockout football competition played by 92 teams, representing all 26 Brazilian states plus the Federal District. It is the Brazilian domestic cup and the Brazilian equivalent of the FA Cup, Taça de ...

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

State *

Copa Estado de São Paulo The Copa Paulista de Futebol, formerly known as Copa FPF, also sometimes called Copa Federação Paulista de Futebol or, in English, São Paulo State Cup, is a tournament organized by Federação Paulista de Futebol, Federação Paulista de Fute ...

: 2003 Youth * Taça São Paulo de Juniores: 2003

References

External links

Profile at futpedia
*http://www.gazzetta.it/speciali/2008/calcio/Players/player_p210863.shtml *http://www.gazzetta.it/speciali/risultati_classifiche/calcio/giocatori/giocatore_junior_angelo_esmael_da_costa_272431852.shtml {{DEFAULTSORT:Costa, Angelo da 1983 births Living people People from São Bernardo do Campo Association football goalkeepers Brazilian footballers Brazilian expatriate footballers Campeonato Brasileiro Série B players Esporte Clube Santo André players Serie A players Serie B players Expatriate footballers in Italy S.S.D. Varese Calcio players A.C. Ancona players U.C. Sampdoria players Bologna F.C. 1909 players Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Footballers from São Paulo (state)