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Hélder Costa
Hélder Wander Sousa Azevedo Costa, Helder Costa, Helder Wander Sousa Azevedo Costa, Hélder Wander Sousa de Azevedo e Costa
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Hélder Wander Sousa de Azevedo Costa (born 12 January 1994) is an Angolan professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or right winger for the Angola national team. He has also represented Portugal internationally from youth to senior level. Starting his playing career at Benfica, with which he made a single Taça da Liga appearance, Costa spent most of his career abroad, including at Deportivo de La Coruña in La Liga and Monaco in Ligue 1. He also spent several years in England with Wolverhampton Wanderers and Leeds United, winning the EFL Championship with both. He departed Leeds in October 2023, and became a free agent. He would later move abroad and return to Portugal, signing for Estoril Praia in August 2024. Costa represented Portugal from under-16 all the way through to the senior side, for whom he scored on his only appearance in 2018. He scored his first goal on his debut for Angola in November 2021.
Career
- 1994Born
- 2009Joined Portugal national under-16 football team
- 2010Joined Portugal national under-17 football team
- 2010Joined Portugal national under-17 football team
- 2011Joined Portugal national under-17 football team
- 2011Joined Portugal national under-18 football team
- 2012Joined S.L. Benfica
- 2012Joined Portugal national under-19 football team
- 2012Joined S.L. Benfica B
- 2014Joined Portugal national under-20 football team
- 2014Joined Portugal national under-21 football team
- 2015Joined Deportivo de La Coruña
- 2015Joined AS Monaco FC
- 2016Joined Portugal Olympic football team
- 2019Joined Leeds United F.C.
Trivia
- •Place of birth: Luanda
- •Citizenship: Portugal, Angola
- •Known as: association football player
- •Sport: association football
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