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Denilson Costa
Personal information
Full name	Denilson Costa
Date of birth	10 June 1968 (age 56)
Place of birth	São João de Meriti, Brazil
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	Necaxa (Coach)
Senior career*
Years	Team
1990–1991	Limonense
1991–1995	Olimpia
1995	Belén
1995–1997	Motagua
1997–2002	Olimpia
2003–2005	Marathón
2005–2006	Platense
2006	Heredia
2007	Atlético Olanchano
2007	Necaxa
International career‡
2003–2005	Honduras
Managerial career
2011	Necaxa
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 2007; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 2006

Denilson Costa (born 10 June 1968) is a Brazilian and naturalized Honduran football coach and former player.

He is currently the second all-time top scorer in the Honduran Liga Nacional and was also the first to reach 150 goals.^[1] Now he is a teacher in Honduras. Costa along with Marcelo Ferreira are among the only naturalized Honduran nationals to have played for the Honduras national football team.

Club career

Born in Brazil, Denilson moved to Honduras in 1991 and made his league debut in September 1991 for Olimpia against Súper Estrella, scoring the only goal of the game. He spent his entire career in Honduras, except for short spells in Costa Rica with Limonense^[2] for whom he scored the fastest goal in Costa Rica's premier division history in December 1990^[3] and Belén and in Guatemala with Heredia. He finished his playing career at Necaxa to become the club's manager a few seasons later.^[4]

He played 481 matches is Honduran professional football, which is still a record.^[5]

Team	Season	Games	Goal
Club Deportivo Olimpia	1991-92	12	11
Club Deportivo Olimpia	1992-93	26	12
Club Deportivo Olimpia	1993-94	24	7
Club Deportivo Olimpia	1994-95	5	2
Total	1992–1995	67	32
F.C. Motagua	1995-96	23	6
F.C. Motagua	1996-97	27	14
Total	1995–1997	50	20
Club Deportivo Olimpia	1997-98 A	21	7
Club Deportivo Olimpia	1997-98 C	24	13
Club Deportivo Olimpia	1998-99	18	10
Club Deportivo Olimpia	1999-2000 A	20	2
Club Deportivo Olimpia	1999-2000 C	21	3
Club Deportivo Olimpia	2000-01 A	22	8
Club Deportivo Olimpia	2000-01 C	14	5
Club Deportivo Olimpia	2001-02 A	19	7
Club Deportivo Olimpia	2001-02 C	18	6
Club Deportivo Olimpia	2002-03 A	18	6
Total	1997–2002	195	67
Club Deportivo Marathón	2002-03 C	22	10
Club Deportivo Marathón	2003-04 A	19	9
Club Deportivo Marathón	2003-04 C	18	2
Club Deportivo Marathón	2004-05 A	18	2
Club Deportivo Marathón	2004-05 C	14	1
Total	2003–2005	91	24
Club Deportivo Platense	2005-06 A	14	3
Club Deportivo Platense	2005-06 C	18	8
Total'	2005–2006	32	11
Atlético Olanchano	2006-07 C	14	0
Atlético Olanchano	2007–08 A	16	1
Total	2007	30	1
Career Total	1991–1995, 1995–2006, 2007	465	155

International career

Denilson made his debut for his adopted home country Honduras in an October 2003 friendly match against Bolivia and has earned a total of 5 caps, scoring no goals.

His final international was a March 2005 friendly against the USA.

Managerial career

On 6 March 2011, Costa made his professional debut as coach with C.D. Necaxa in the 0–1 home defeat against F.C. Motagua.^[6]

Personal life

Denilson married Costa Rican Mirta Yorleni Ortiz whom he met while playing in Limón. She is a niece of former Costa Rican international Enrique Rivers. He became a Honduran citizen in 2002.