Filomeno Junior

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Filomeno Junior
Personal information
Full name Filomeno Junior da Costa
Date of birth (1998-06-21) 21 June 1998 (age 25)
Place of birth Dili, East Timor, Indonesia
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Defender
Team information
Current team
Benfica de Macau
Number 18
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2017–2023 SLB Laulara
2023– Benfica de Macau 14 (0)
International career
2018– Timor-Leste 16 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18:39, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Filomeno Junior da Costa; knownly Filomeno Junior or Filomeno, (born 21 June 1998) is a Timorese footballer currently playing for Liga de Elite club Benfica de Macau and captains the Timor-Leste national team.

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Club career

SLB Laulara

Filomeno played domestic football for SLB Laulara of the Liga Futebol Amadora for which he served as captain. [1] [2] In January 2022, the player expressed an interested in playing in neighboring Indonesia's Liga 1, particularly for Persija Jakarta. [3]

Benfica de Macau

In February 2023, Filomeno joined Benfica de Macau of Macau's Liga de Elite. [4] He was joined at the club by fellow Timorese international João Pedro da Silva Freitas. [5] In a January 2023 interview, national teammate Jhon Frith identified both players as two of their nation's top footballers. [6]

International career

Filomeno represented Timor-Leste at the youth level, beginning with the under-14 level. In 2013 he scored against Myanmar in AFC U-14 Championship qualification. [7] He made his senior international debut on 12 October 2018 in a friendly against Cambodia. [8] In January 2022, he scored an own goal in a 1–4 friendly against Indonesia in what head coach Fábio Magrão called an otherwise satisfactory performance by the young players. [9] Also in 2022, he captained the national under-23 team for the 2021 SEA Games. [10]

International career statistics

As of match played 12 October 2023
Timor-Leste national team
YearAppsGoals
201870
201920
202000
202140
202220
202310
Total160

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