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)
Position(s) 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)
International career
1992 Portugal U21 5 (0)
Managerial career
2011–2012 Torreense (assistant)
2015–2016 Atlético (youth)
*Club domestic league appearances and 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.[1] 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.[2]

In the following year, manager Raul Águas converted Marinho into a right back, where he went on to appear in most of his 81 competitive games, 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.[3]

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 1995–96 Taça de Portugal.[4] He remained in starting eleven in 1996–97, appearing in 21 games.[5] but with the rise of José Sousa in the following year,[6] he was deemed surplus to Manuel José 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.[1]

International career

Marinho represented the under-21 side of the national team at the 1992 Toulon Tournament, playing three games and helping them win the competition.[7]

Honours

Sporting
Benfica

References

General

  • Tovar, Rui Miguel (2012). Almanaque do Benfica. Portugal: Lua de Papel. ISBN 978-989-23-2087-8.

Specific

  1. 1 2 "Mário Costa". FPF.pt. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  2. ↑ "Taça de Portugal: Restam quatro maiorais" [Portuguese : The big four remaining]. Diário de Lisboa (in Portuguese) (22911): 18. 9 March 1989.
  3. ↑ Nuno Madureira (4 February 2016). "Benfica e Sporting: uma rivalidade com vários Carrillos" [Benfica e Sporting: rivalry with several "Carrilos"]. Mais Futebol (in Portuguese). Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  4. ↑ Tovar 2012, p. 541-547.
  5. ↑ Tovar 2012, p. 549-555.
  6. ↑ Tovar 2012, p. 556.
  7. ↑ "Marinho". FPF.pt. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
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