Mário Teixeira da Costa (born 24 November 1970), known as Marinho, is a retired Portuguese

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who played as a right back. During a 13-year professional career he amassed

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totals of 112 games and two goals in 11 seasons, representing five clubs including Sporting and Benfica.

Club career

Born in

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, Germany to Portuguese parents, Marinho returned to the land of his ancestors and joined

Sporting Clube de Portugal Sporting Clube de Portugal, founded Sporting Club de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP, often known abroad as Sporting Lisbon , is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Lisbon. It is best known for the professional fo ...

's youth system at the age of 13. Initially a midfielder, he made his competitive debut on 8 March 1989 in a game against F.C. Vizela for the Taça de Portugal, after coming on as a substitute for Paulo Silas. In the following year, manager

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converted Marinho into a right back, where he went on to appear in most of his 81 competitive games, eventually beating competition from

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. However, after playing in only ten league games in his last two seasons combined, he signed for crosstown rivals S.L. Benfica in 1995 as a replacement for

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. He played his first game for Benfica in a home draw against Salgueiros on 6 September 1995 and went on to make 24 appearances in all competitions, helping them win the

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. He remained in starting eleven in 1996–97, appearing in 21 games. but with the rise of

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in the following year, he was deemed surplus to

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and joined fellow

side

S.C. Campomaiorense Sporting Clube Campomaiorense, more commonly known as Campomaiorense, is a Portuguese football club from Campo Maior, Portalegre District. The club was founded on the 1 July 1926. The club currently plays at the Estádio Capitão Cesar Correia whi ...

. He featured rarely for that team and his following,

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, this being interspersed by two years of inactivity.

International career

Marinho represented the under-21 side of the national team at the

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, playing three games and helping them win the competition.

Honours

;Sporting * Taça de Portugal: 1994–95 ;Benfica * Taça de Portugal: 1995–96

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Marinho 1970 births Living people German people of Portuguese descent Citizens of Portugal through descent Footballers from Baden-Württemberg Portuguese footballers Association football defenders Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Sporting CP footballers S.L. Benfica footballers S.C. Campomaiorense players F.C. Alverca players C.F. Estrela da Amadora players People from Singen Sportspeople from Freiburg (region)