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Ricardo Costa is a Portuguese male association football player and coach. Born on May 16, 1981, in Vila Nova de Gaia, he stands 183 centimeters tall and weighs 80 kilograms. He has played for several clubs, including FC Porto, FC Porto B, VfL Wolfsburg, and Valencia CF. As a defender, he also represented Boavista. Costa began his professional work period on January 20, 2002, and speaks Portuguese.
He represented Portugal in international competition, participating in the 2006, 2010, and 2014 FIFA World Cups, as well as the 2004 Summer Olympics. His career statistics include one match start and zero total goals. He wore the number 22 jersey during his playing career.
Synthesized by Vinony from 40 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Hipnoterapia
- Os administradores de facto das sociedades comerciais
- Francisco Urondo, la palabra en acción
- El discurso como práctica
- Poemas vividos
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Brazil
- Active from
- 1945-09-26
- Active to
- 2022-11-09
Discography
- Domingo1967
- Gal1969
- Gal Costa1969
- Legal1970
- Índia1973
- Cantar1974
- Gal canta Caymmi1976
- Caras & bocas1977
- Água viva1978
- Gal tropical1979
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 73
- Total plays
- 229
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ricardo+Costa">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,894x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,975x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,704x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,997x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,241x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- 1999
- Portugal U18
- 2010
- → Lille (loan)
- 2016
- Granada
- 2025
- Feirense
- Full name
- Ricardo Miguel Moreira da Costa
- Date of birth
- ( 1981-05-16 ) 16 May 1981 (age 45)
- Place of birth
- Vila Nova de Gaia , Portugal
- Height
- 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
- Position
- Defender
- Current team
- Feirense (manager)
- 1989 1992
- Valadares Gaia
- 1992 2000
- Boavista
- Years
- Team
- 2000 2003
- Porto B
- 2002 2007
- Porto
- 2007 2010
- VfL Wolfsburg
- 2010 2014
- Valencia
- 2014 2015
- Al-Sailiya
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- Boavista
- Position
- Defender
- Nationality
- Portugal
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ricardo
- Family name
- Costa
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Portugal
- Place of birth
- Vila Nova de Gaia
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Native language
- Portuguese
- Participant in
- 2010 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Boavista F.C.
- Position played
- full-back
- League
- Q82595
- Country for sport
- Portugal
- Mass
- 80
- Image
- Ricardo Costa - Croatia vs. Portugal, 10th June 2013 (crop).jpg
- Height
- 183
Show 8 more facts
- Commons category
- Ricardo Costa
- date of birth
- 1981-05-16
- sport number
- 22
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 1
- total goals in career
- 0
- start of work period
- 2002-01-20
- birth name
- Ricardo Miguel Moreira da Costa
- name in native language
- Ricardo Costa
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals
Ricardo Miguel Moreira da Costa ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁiˈkaɾðu ˈkɔʃtɐ]; born 16 May 1981) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played mainly as a central defender but occasionally as a full-back. He is the current manager of Liga Portugal 2 club Feirense.
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