Diogo Meireles da Costa, a professional football player for Porto of the Primeira Liga and the Portugal national team, was born on September 19, 1999.
Costa, a product of Porto’s junior program, made an impression while playing for the reserve team and won the UEFA Youth League in 2019. He was promoted to the first team in 2019, winning the Primeira Liga and the Taça de Portugal in his debut season.
In 2021, at the age of 22, he made his debut, earning a reputation as one of the most promising young goalkeepers in the world and earning a spot on the Primeira Liga Team of the Year. He also helped Porto to a second domestic double.
Parents and Siblings
He was born to middle-class Portuguese parents Francisco Costa and Armanda Meireles in a small Swiss hamlet outside of Zurich.
He has a sibling named Jair who is older.
Wife and Children
Costa and his wife, Catarina Machado, have a son named Tomás Costa, who was born in November 2022.
