After several days of meetings, conversations between La Paz and Medellín, Atlético Nacional would have tied its first reinforcement for the 2023 season. It is the Brazilian striker Francisco Da Costa, who arrives from Bolívar in Bolivia, where he scored 24 last season. goals in 40 games played.
Francisco Da Costa Aragão was born in Taquari, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil on May 5, 1995. He was trained in professional football with Athletico Paranaense, but failed to make his debut with the first team, being sent on loan four times. First with Inter de Lages, where he made his professional debut in 2015, and later in the same year he would move to Tombense. The following year he would play with Operário Ferroviário and with Esporte Clube São José.
This is Francisco “Chico” Da Costa, the possible 9 of Atlético Nacional. He comes from being a scorer in tournaments in Paraguay and Bolivia. Let’s see how it goes. pic.twitter.com/sjL8SQzVE9
— HellHammer (@johngongo) November 7, 2022
In São José he played 11 games and scored a goal in 2016. In 2017, Da Costa had his first international experience, playing with Inter Playa del Carmen from Mexico, a club with which he played the first half of the Aztec second division scoring 10 goals. For the second half of 2017, he went to play for Venados, also in the second division, and in 2019 he moved to Atlante, a club with which he played 26 official matches, scoring four goals. For 2020 he played for Querétaro in the Mexican first division, but he did not have much continuity.
In 2021 he moved to Sol de América in Paraguay, where he played 16 games and scored eight goals. That is when he entered the orbit of Bolívar de Bolivia, a club that takes him on loan and that, after winning the Apertura Tournament, becomes his record.
The Brazilian player will be the 13th born in that country to play with Atlético Nacional and it is expected that he will be the first to be champion with the purslane. Regarding the negotiation, it was learned by Bolívar that the exit clause was two million dollars, with which the purslane would have made a strong investment for a scorer they need for next year.
Juan Camilo Alvarez Serrano
FUTBOLRED Correspondent
Medellín
En Twitter: @juanchoserran8
