The soccer world was taken aback when Douglas Costa left his club, LA Galaxy, early. Recognized for his agility and technical skill on the field, the Brazilian striker chose to leave the American team. However, this decision was clear before his contract was originally set to expire. It just sparked speculation about his next travel […]

Berlin (AFP) – Bayern Munich's Brazil winger Douglas Costa was on Sunday ruled out for the foreseeable future with a hamstring injury, 10 days before their Champions League clash at Atletico Madrid. Costa suffered the injury in the second-half of Bayern's 3-1 comeback win at home to Ingolstadt in the Bundesliga on Saturday, which preserved […]

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – Strikers Neymar and Douglas Costa head a young Brazil Olympic football squad looking to bounce back from humiliation in the Copa America Centenario, stand-in coach Rogerio Micale announced Wednesday. On home soil in next month's Games in Rio two years after their devastating 7-1 semi-final loss to Germany, Brazil are bidding […]

Bayern Munich winger Douglas Costa has been named player of the first half of the season by German magazine Kicker. The 25-year-old Brazilian, a summer signing from Shakhtar Donetsk, received just over 30 percent of the vote in the popular magazine, beating Borussia Dortmund's Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (23 percent) into second with his Bayern […]

Following the embarrassment of the 7-1 loss to Germany in the semifinals of the 2014 World Cup, Brazil had to go through a rebuilding period and reevaluate the talent that had been coming from the land of Pele. While a nation that seemed to have a world-class striker in every generation is still looking for […]