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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | José Alberto Barroso Machado e Costa | ||
| Date of birth | (1953-10-31)31 October 1953 (age 72) | ||
| Place of birth | Porto, Portugal | ||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Position | Winger | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1969–1971 | Vila Real | ||
| 1971–1972 | Académica | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1971–1978 | Académica | 136 | (15) |
| 1977 | →Rochester Lancers (loan) | 8 | (1) |
| 1978–1985 | Porto | 145 | (22) |
| 1985–1986 | Vitória Guimarães | 29 | (2) |
| 1986–1987 | Marítimo | 9 | (0) |
| Total | 327 | (40) | |
| International career | |||
| 1978–1983 | Portugal | 24 | (1) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1989 | Portugal (assistant) | ||
| 1989–1990 | Académica | ||
| 1991–1992 | Portugal (assistant) | ||
| 1991–1992 | Portugal U21 | ||
| 1993–1995 | Sporting CP (assistant) | ||
| 1996–1997 | Nagoya Grampus Eight (assistant) | ||
| 1996 | Nagoya Grampus Eight | ||
| 1998–1999 | United Arab Emirates (assistant) | ||
| 1999–2001 | Famalicão | ||
| 2001 | Vizela | ||
| 2001–2003 | Varzim | ||
| 2003 | Chaves | ||
| 2009–2010 | Portugal (assistant) | ||
| 2011–2012 | Sanat Naft | ||
| 2013–2014 | Braga B | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
José Alberto Barroso Machado e Costa (born 31 October 1953) is a Portuguese retiredfootballer who played as aleft winger, and is amanager.
In 15Primeira Liga seasons – 16 as a professional in total – he amassed totals of 301 matches and 37 goals in representation of four teams, mostlyPorto. Subsequently, he embarked in a lengthy managerial career.
Costa was born inPorto. Still as a junior, he made his professional – andPrimeira Liga – debut withAcadémica de Coimbra, playing 12 first-team games in an eventualrelegation and contributing with 18 and two goals in an immediate promotion back; he spent a portion of the summer of 1977 on loan with theRochester Lancers of theNorth American Soccer League.[1]
After scoring a career-best ten goals in the1977–78 season with theStudents, Costa signed forFC Porto. A classic winger with an above-average physical condition – he practicedtrack and field andhandball in his first club,S.C. Vila Real[2]– he went on to form a formidable attacking trio in the club withFernando Gomes andAntónio Oliveira, being instrumental in the conquest of six major titles, including two national championships; he was voted thePortuguese Footballer of The Year in 1979,[3] and also appeared as asubstitute inthe final of the1983–84UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, lost againstJuventus FC inBasel.[4]
The name of Costa was connected to theVerão Quente ("Hot summer") of 1980, when a group of 15 players, includingAntónio Lima Pereira, Oliveira,Octávio Machado,Jaime Pacheco,António Sousa and Gomes, suspended their club activity sympathizing with managerJosé Maria Pedroto anddirector of footballJorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, who had entered in "collision course" with chairman Américo de Sá.[5][2] He still remained with the five a further five years but, after the consecutive emergence ofVermelhinho and 17-year-oldPaulo Futre, he lost his importance in the team, for example appearing in only five matches in the1984–85 campaign.
Aged nearly 32, Costa joinedVitória Sport Clube, helping theGuimarães-based sidefinish fourth andqualify to theUEFA Cup. On 24 November 1985 he scored his only goal of the season by helping defeatSporting CP 4–3 at home, and retired from the game in June 1987 after a slow year withC.S. Marítimo.
Costa won 24caps forPortugal and scored one goal,[6] against theUnited States in his second international match. His debut came on 8 March 1978 in afriendly match withFrance in Paris, while he was still a member of Académica.
Costa did not represent the nation at any international competition, and his last appearance was on 28 October 1983 againstPoland, in a 1–0 away win for theUEFA Euro 1984qualifiers.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 September 1978 | Estádio do Bonfim, Setúbal, Portugal |  United States | 1–0 | 1–0 | Friendly |
After retiring as a professional footballer Costa, who possessed a solid academic education (he completed a degree inmechanical engineering at theUniversity of Coimbra),[2] embarked on a coaching career. He briefly acted as assistant toJuca in the national team, then took charge of its youth sides and also assisted the following national team manager,Carlos Queiroz. His first head coach experience was with former team Académica in thesecond division, remaining one season with the club.
Costa again worked with Queiroz at Sporting,NY/NJ MetroStars,Nagoya Grampus Eight and theUnited Arab Emirates national team. In the late 1990s he returned to head coaching duties, consecutively managingF.C. Famalicão (second level),F.C. Vizela (third),Varzim SC (first) andG.D. Chaves (second).
In 2005, Costa was hired to work in the United States for the "USA Seventeen Soccer Academy", as a technical director. He established himself inSanta Clara, California, assisting and technically supervising the various echelons of the academy. In July 2008, he was reunited with Queiroz as he joined the scouting department of the Portugal national team, working alongsideOceano da Cruz and English Julian Ward.[7][2]
In November 2011, Costa was appointed as head coach ofIran Pro League sideSanat Naft Abadan F.C. until the end of the season, replacingGholam Hossein Peyrovani. In May 2012, after producing good results, his contract was extended for another year, but he eventually stepped down from his position late into that year.[8]
| Team | From | To | Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||
| Nagoya Grampus Eight | 1996 | 1996 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 |
| Total | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | ||
