Mário Teixeira Costa

Marinho
Personal information
Full name Mário Teixeira da Costa
Date of birth (1970-11-24) 24 November 1970
Place of birth Singen, Germany
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position Right back
Youth career
1984–1989 Sporting CP
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1989–1995 Sporting CP 69 (0)
1995–1997 Benfica 33 (1)
1997 Campomaiorense 5 (1)
1998 Alverca 8 (0)
1998–1999 Estrela Amadora 1 (0)
2001–2004 Estrela Amadora 4 (0)
Total 120 (2)
Teams managed
2011–2012 Torreense (assistant)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Mário Teixeira da Costa (born 24 November 1970), known as Marinho, is a retired Portuguese footballer who played as a right back.

During a 13-year professional career he amassed Primeira Liga totals of 112 games and two goals in 11 seasons, representing five clubs including Sporting and Benfica.

Club career

Born in Singen, Germany to Portuguese parents, Marinho returned to the land of his ancestors and joined Sporting Clube de Portugal'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 Raul Águas converted Marinho into a right back, where he went on to appear in most of his 85 competitive games,[1] eventually beating competition from Fernando Nélson. 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 Abel Xavier.[2]

During his spell with the Eagles, Marinho was initially first-choice, but was eventually deemed surplus to requirements and joined fellow Primeira Liga side S.C. Campomaiorense. He featured rarely for that team and his following, C.F. Estrela da Amadora, this being interspersed by two years of inactivity.[3]

Honours

Sporting
Benfica

References

  1. 1 2 "Marinho Costa" (in Portuguese). Wiki Sporting. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Marinho" (in Portuguese). Ser Benfiquista. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
  3. ↑ "Nº161 – Marinho" (in Portuguese). Vedeta ou Marreta?. 6 September 2009. Retrieved 11 August 2013.

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