Defensive midfielder of the Girondins de Bordeaux from 2001 to 2004, OM during the 2004-2005 season then AS Monaco in 2009-2010, Eduardo Costa returns to his career in the columns of
The team. The daily has just published a summer special issue with these recent “ex” words “. “Fighting with your captain is ugly” is the title of the interview with the winner of the 2002 League Cup, about a “Real fight” With Christophe Dugarry. World champion 98 and winner of Euro 2000, “Duga” returned to his training club from 2000 to 2003.
“With Dugarry, we heated ourselves in the field and then in the locker room, in Anderlecht (2-2, for elimination in the 3rd round of the UEFA Cup 2002-2003, editor's note). I am not proud of it but in the heat of the moment, I cracked. He believed that I was lacking respect. Even if I was young, I had temperament. Today, I wouldn't have acted like that. It was a real fight. We never talked about after that ”says Eduardo Costa in The team.
Winners of the 2002 League Cup against FC Lorient.
Before concluding: “Fighting with your captain is ugly and I was labeled bad boy in the environment. I am however a nice boy, who has a good heart ”. Especially since when he chooses his two most talented former teammates, in addition to Rivaldo and Ronaldo in Brazilian Seleçao and Ronaldinho to the Grêmio (excuse the little!) He quotes Pedro Pauleta and Christophe Dugarry. During this return round against Anderlecht, the two attackers were associated in front, with Camel Meriem and Savio as creators.
Eduardo Costa loved the Feinduno-Darcheville duo
Eduardo Costa was associated with Aleksey Smertin in the midfield by Elie Baup. “My alter ego was Alexey Smertin. It's curious because he is Russian and me Brazilian, but we got along perfectly. No need to talk to each other. We were with our eyes closed and we had the same vision of the game, we liked to press the opponent, to move forward. I was a lung, he was the other. It is as if we were born from the same mother, but in two different countries (laughs) ”he smiles. As for Savio, he designates him as the most under-coated teammate with whom he has evolved.
In this match in Brussels, Pascal Feindouno and Jean-Claude Darcheville entered in the second half and it was precisely the Guyanese center-forward that enabled the FCGB to return to 2-2, by registering a double. In vain, because the Bordeaux had lost 2-0 on the outward journey. Eduardo Costa was also marked by Feindouno and Darcheville: “They were inseparable. Two clowns spending their time joking, going out, doing crazy. I liked them ”.
