Mihai Costea
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mihai Alexandru Costea | ||
| Date of birth | 29 May 1988 | ||
| Place of birth | Drăgășani, Romania | ||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Sparta Râmnicu Vâlcea | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2005 | CSM Râmnicu Vâlcea | ||
| 2006–2007 | Universitatea Craiova | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2006–2011 | Universitatea Craiova | 83 | (14) |
| 2011–2015 | Steaua București | 35 | (9) |
| 2015–2016 | Voluntari | 7 | (0) |
| 2016 | Ittihad Kalba | 14 | (17) |
| 2017–2018 | Al-Fujairah | 14 | (5) |
| 2018–2019 | Al-Arabi | 11 | (10) |
| 2020–2021 | Chindia Târgoviște | 13 | (0) |
| 2022 | Progresul 05 București | ||
| 2022–2023 | ARO Câmpulung | 14 | (16) |
| 2023 | Viitorul Dăești | 11 | (10) |
| 2023–2024 | Mioveni | 19 | (1) |
| 2024– | Sparta Râmnicu Vâlcea | 0 | (0) |
| International career | |||
| 2009–2010 | Romania U21 | 13 | (1) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11 May 2024 | |||
Mihai Alexandru Costea (born 29 May 1988) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Sparta Râmnicu Vâlcea. He is the younger brother of Florin Costea.[1][2]
Club career
[edit]FC U Craiova
[edit]Costea played in Universitatea Craiova youth team. In 2008 the player was promoted to the first team, where he joined his older brother Florin Costea. Though his favorite positions are striker or winger, due to lack of players at Universitatea Craiova he was often used as a left midfielder. This usually brought criticism to Universitatea Craiova officials.[3]
Steaua București
[edit]Costea was transferred to Steaua București for a reported transfer fee of €1.4 million.[4]
In July 2013, Costea was excluded from the team, after refusing to comply with the team schedule, being unhappy that he wasn't called for game against Vardar Skopje, in the Champions League qualifying stage.[5]
Gulf
[edit]In 2016, it was announced that United Arab Emirates's Al-Ittihad Kalba signed Romanian free-agent Mihai Costea.[6] Costea concluded his debut season as the club's top scorer with 17 goals in addition to ten league assists in only eleven games played.
International career
[edit]Costea was a Romania U-21 international being capped thirteen times and scored one goal against Latvia U-21 on 14 November 2009.[7]
Honours
[edit]- Universitatea Craiova
- Steaua București
- Liga I: 2012–13, 2013–14
- Cupa României runner-up: 2013–14
- Supercupa României: 2013
References
[edit]- ^ "Fraţii Florin și Mihai Costea revin în fotbal. Nu vor să mai audă de Liga 1" [The brothers Florin and Mihai Costea return to football. They don't want to hear about Liga 1 anymore] (in Romanian). digisport.ro. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
- ^ "Succesul lui MIHAI COSTEA, drama fratelui său!" [The success of MIHAI COSTEA, the drama of his brother!] (in Romanian). cancan.ro. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
- ^ Adevarul.ro Costea
- ^ EXCLUSIV Mihai Costea va semna cu Steaua! VEZI ce sumă va primi Craiova! (Romanian)
- ^ Adrian Petculescu (2013). "Mihai Costea a fost EXCLUS din lotul echipei Steaua" (in Romanian). Mediafax.
- ^ "Hat-trick Mihai Costea şi promovare cu Al Ittihad Kalba: "Lumea îmi apreciază munca"" (in Romanian). digisport.ro. 2016.
- ^ Costea deschide scorul cu Letonia
External links
[edit]- Mihai Costea at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
- Mihai Costea at Soccerway
- 1988 births
- People from Drăgășani
- Living people
- Romanian men's footballers
- Men's association football forwards
- FC U Craiova 1948 players
- FCSB players
- FC Voluntari players
- Kalba FC players
- Fujairah FC players
- Al-Arabi SC (UAE) players
- AFC Chindia Târgoviște players
- Liga I players
- CS Mioveni players
- Liga II players
- Liga III players
- Romanian expatriate men's footballers
- Romania men's under-21 international footballers
- UAE First Division League players
- UAE Pro League players
- Expatriate men's footballers in the United Arab Emirates
- Romanian expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates
- 21st-century Romanian sportsmen