Logan Costa

Costa with Toulouse in 2023
Personal information
Full name	Logan Evans Costa
Date of birth	(2001-04-01) 1 April 2001 (age 23)
Place of birth	Saint-Denis, France
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Centre-back
Team information
Current team	Toulouse
Number	6
Youth career
2007–2010	ASC Val d'Argenteuil
2010–2016	RFC Argenteuil
2016–2021	Reims
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	( Gls)
2018–2021	Reims B	25	(2)
2020–2021	→ Le Mans (loan)	26	(0)
2021–2023	Toulouse B	11	(1)
2021–	Toulouse	26	(0)
International career‡
2017	France U16	9	(0)
2017	France U17	1	(0)
2022–	Cape Verde	3	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:28, 3 February 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:59, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Logan Evans Costa (born 1 April 2001) is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Ligue 1 club Toulouse. ^[1] Born in France, he plays for the Cape Verde national team.

Early life

Costa was born in Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, ^{[2] [3]} in a Cape Verdean family. ^{[4] [5]}

Club career

Having started to play football in Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise, Logan Costa joined Reims's youth academy in 2016. ^{[6] [7]}

A player in Reims's Championnat National 2 reserve starting in the 2018–19 season, Costa captained the side during the following campaign. ^{[5] [6] [8] [9]} With a few appearances in the pro squad for the Ligue 1 games, ^[10] he was loaned to Championnat National side Le Mans for the 2020–21 season. ^{[2] [8]}

With Le Mans newly-relegated from Ligue 2, he was one of the standout players in the team, and a revelation of the Championnat National, starting and playing the entirety of 26 games, as the club only narrowly missed the promotion play-offs. ^{[2] [3] [4] [11] [12]}

After this promising loan spell, Costa was offered a contract extension by Reims, but chose to look elsewhere in search of more game time. ^{[3] [4]} With one year left on his contract, several clubs from France, Italy and Germany were interested by the young centre-back, ^{[2] [3] [12]} but he was eventually transferred to the Toulouse in August 2021. ^{[2] [11] [13] [14]}

Costa made his professional debut for Toulouse on 13 November 2021, starting and playing every minute of a penalty shoot-out victory over Libourne in the Coupe de France, in which he helped his team keep a clean sheet. ^{[15] [16] [17]} Starting the season behind Rasmus Nicolaisen, Bafodé Diakité and Anthony Rouault, with a team aiming for promotion, ^{[18] [19]} Costa first only made bench appearances in Ligue 2. ^[20] However, he established himself as a regular starter in the Coupe de France, even scoring his first goal against Trélissac. ^{[20] [21] [22]}

International career

An international with France under-16s and under-17s, ^{[8] [12] [13]} Costa was also selected for the French under-19s and under-20s, without playing any official games in a period where most of them where canceled due to COVID-19. ^{[5] [6] [11] [14]}

On 16 March 2022, he received his first international call-up for the Cape Verde national team. ^{[23] [24]} He debuted with Cape Verde in a 2–0 friendly win over Guadeloupe. ^[25]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 20 December 2023 ^[26]

International

As of match played 29 January 2024 ^[27]

Honours

Toulouse

• Ligue 2: 2021–22 ^[28]
• Coupe de France: 2022–23 ^[29]

References

External links

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