Renata Aparecida da Costa (born 8 July 1986), commonly known as Renata Costa or Kóki, is a Brazilian
football coach
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and former player, most recently an assistant coach with
Iranduba
Iranduba is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Amazonas.
The population of Iranduba in 2020 was 49,011 and its area is 2,215 km², making it the smallest municipality in Amazonas in terms of area. It is located south and west ...
. She represented the
Brazil women's national football team
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at three editions of the
FIFA Women's World Cup (
2003,
2007 and
2011) and three
Olympic football tournament
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s (
2004,
2008
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and
2012
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).
Career
She has played as a creative
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
for
Brazil
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's
Botucatu FC since 2005, and was a member of the
Brazilian National Teams that won the silver medal at the
2004 Summer Olympics and
2008 Summer Olympics. She is known for her precise passing and goal scoring prowess.
In January 2008 Costa signed for Danish
Elitedivisionen
The Danish Women's League ( da, Danmarksturneringens Kvindeliga, Kvinde-DM Liga or Kvindeligaen) is a semi-professional top-flight league for women's football in Denmark. It is organised by the Danish Football Association (DBU) as part of the ...
club
OB Odense
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. Her new coach described her as a strong midfielder with good technique who could score goals and also play in defence. It was reported that Costa's
transfer
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was one of the first involving Brazilian female players to generate a profit for the selling club.
On 24 September 2008, Costa's American transfer rights were drafted by the
Saint Louis Athletica
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in the
2008 WPS International Draft
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. Instead of joining the new American franchise, she accepted a competing offer from
LdB FC Malmö of the Swedish
Damallsvenskan
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. LdB FC took over the final year of Costa's Odense contract, paying an undisclosed transfer fee to the Danish club.
In January 2014, Russian
Top Division club
Kubanochka Krasnodar
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announced the triple signing of Costa and her compatriots
Danielli and
Amanda Brunner. The club reached the 2014
Russian Women's Cup
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final, but were beaten 5–0 by
Ryazan-VDV
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History
Founded in 1996, it won two league titles and one cup in the last years of the twentieth century. Ryazan-VDV was the first team to represent Russia in the U ...
. The Brazilian players were awarded new one-year contracts by Kubanochka in February 2015.
Upon her return to Brazil, Costa joined
Corinthians
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, who had reformed in conjunction with
Grêmio Osasco Audax Esporte Clube
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and were known as Corinthians Audax. After helping Corinthians Audax to win the
2016 Copa do Brasil de Futebol Feminino
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, she signed for ambitious
Amazonas-based
Iranduba
Iranduba is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Amazonas.
The population of Iranduba in 2020 was 49,011 and its area is 2,215 km², making it the smallest municipality in Amazonas in terms of area. It is located south and west ...
in October 2017. Costa retired from playing following the 2019 season, but remained at the club as an assistant coach for a time before announcing her departure in June 2020.
Despite playing as a midfielder at club level, with Brazil she played as a
sweeper, notably alongside centre-backs
Tânia and
Aline.
Personal life
Car accident
In October 2007, Costa crashed her
Opel Corsa
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into another car at a level crossing. She and front seat passenger
Michele
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suffered minor injuries. Another Botucatu teammate, 16-year-old
Cátia Oliveira, was asleep in the back seat and suffered a
spinal cord injury
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, resulting in
paraplegia. Costa was fined $576 for driving without a
licence. Cátia, who had been called up to the
Brazil women's national under-17 football team
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Fixtures and results
;Legend
2018
20 ...
on the day of the accident, later trained as a
para table tennis
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player and represented Brazil at the
2016 Rio Paralympics
)
, nations = 159
, athletes = 4,342
, opening = 7 September
, closing = 18 September
, opened_by = President Michel Temer
, cauldron = Clodoaldo Silva
, events = 528 in 22 sports
, stadium = Maracanã
, su ...
.
References
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Profileat
Swedish Football Association
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Kubanochka Krasnodar
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The Russian Women's Football Championship (russian: Чемпионат России по футболу среди женщин), ...
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1986 births
Living people
Brazilian women's footballers
Women's association football midfielders
Sportspeople from Paraná (state)
Olympic footballers of Brazil
Olympic silver medalists for Brazil
Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 2011 Pan American Games
2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players
Olympic medalists in football
Santos FC (women) players
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Brazil women's international footballers
Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil
Pan American Games silver medalists for Brazil
Pan American Games medalists in football
Sport Club Corinthians Paulista (women) players
Brazilian expatriate women's footballers
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Russia
FC Rosengård players
Kubanochka Krasnodar players
Odense Q players
Expatriate women's footballers in Denmark
Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden
Expatriate women's footballers in Russia
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark
Damallsvenskan players
Botucatu Futebol Clube players
2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players
2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players
Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games