Mihai Costea

Mihai-Alexandru Costea (born 29 May 1988 in Drăgășani) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Chindia Târgoviște. He is the younger brother of Florin Costea.[1][2]

Mihai Costea

Personal information
Full name	Mihai-Alexandru Costea
Date of birth	29 May 1988
Place of birth	Drăgășani, Romania
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Club information
Current team	Chindia Târgoviște
Number	29
Youth career
	FC Universitatea Craiova
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2006–2011	FC U Craiova	83	(14)
2011–2015	Steaua București	35	(10)
2015–2016	Voluntari	12	(2)
2016–2017	Al-Ittihad Kalba	21	(17)
2017–2018	Al-Fujairah	14	(8)
2018–2019	Al-Arabi	11	(10)
2020–	Chindia Târgoviște	0	(0)
National team
2009–2010	Romania U-21	13	(1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 5 November 2020

Club career

Universitatea 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]

Career statistics

(Correct as of 8 January 2016)

Club	Season	League		Cup		League Cup		Europe		Other		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Universitatea Craiova
	2005–06	2	0	0	0	-		-		-		2	0
	2006–07	1	0	0	0	-		-		-		1	0
	2007–08	4	0	0	0	-		-		-		4	0
	2008–09	19	4	2	1	-		-		-		21	5
	2009–10	30	7	3	4	-		-		-		33	11
	2010–11	27	3	3	0	-		-		-		30	3
Total		83	14	8	5	-		-		-		91	19
Steaua București
	2011–12	22	7	1	0	-		9	1	0	0	32	8
	2012–13	12	2	2	2	-		7	1	-		21	5
	2013–14	1	1	1	0	-		0	0	0	0	3	1
Total		35	10	4	2	-		16	2	0	0	55	14
Voluntari
	2015–16	7	0	1	0	1	0	-		-		9	0
Total		7	0	1	0	1	0	-		-		9	0
Career total		125	24	13	7	1	0	16	2	0	0	155	33

Honours

Club

Steaua București

• Romanian Liga I: 2012–13, 2013–14
• Romanian Supercup: 2013

Universitatea Craiova

• Romanian Liga II: 2005–06

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

External links

• Mihai Costea at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian) and StatisticsFootball.com
• Mihai Costea at Soccerway