Mihai Costea

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Mihai Costea
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Personal information
Full name Mihai Alexandru Costea
Date of birth (1988-05-29) 29 May 1988 (age 35)
Place of birth Drăgășani, Romania
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Mioveni
Number 29
Youth career
0000–2005 CSM Râmnicu Vâlcea
2006–2007 Universitatea Craiova
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(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– Mioveni 11 (1)
International career
2009–2010 Romania U21 13 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 30 March 2024

Mihai-Alexandru Costea (born 29 May 1988) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Liga II club Mioveni. He is the younger brother of Florin Costea. [1] [2]

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Club career

FC U Craiova

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

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

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

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

Universitatea Craiova
Steaua București

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References

  1. ↑ "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.
  2. ↑ "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.
  3. ↑ Adevarul.ro Costea
  4. ↑ EXCLUSIV Mihai Costea va semna cu Steaua! VEZI ce sumă va primi Craiova! (Romanian)
  5. ↑ Adrian Petculescu (2013). "Mihai Costea a fost EXCLUS din lotul echipei Steaua" (in Romanian). Mediafax.
  6. ↑ "Hat-trick Mihai Costea şi promovare cu Al Ittihad Kalba: "Lumea îmi apreciază munca"" (in Romanian). digisport.ro. 2016.
  7. ↑ Costea deschide scorul cu Letonia
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