Gustavo Costas

Gustavo Adolfo Costas Makeira (born 28 February 1963) is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a defender. He is the current manager of Chilean club Palestino.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Costas and the second or maternal family name is Makeira.
Gustavo Costas
Costas with Racing Club in 1986
Personal information
Full name Gustavo Adolfo Costas Makeira
Date of birth (1963-02-28) 28 February 1963
Place of birth Buenos Aires, Argentina
Position(s) Defender
Club information
Current team
 Palestino (manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1982–1992 Racing Club
1992–1994 Locarno
1994–1995 Racing Club
1996–1997 Arsenal de Sarandí
Gimnasia de Jujuy
Teams managed
1999–2000 Racing Club
2001–2003 Guaraní
2003–2004 Alianza Lima
2005–2006 Cerro Porteño
2007 Racing Club
2008 Olimpia
2009–2011 Alianza Lima
2011 Al Nassr
2012–2013 Barcelona SC
2014–2015 Santa Fe
2016 Atlas
2016–2017 Santa Fe
2017–2018 Al-Fayha
2019–2021 Guaraní
2022– Palestino
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Born in Buenos Aires, Costas started his playing career in 1982 with Racing Club, in 1983 the club suffered a disastrous relegation from the Primera División. Costas became a key part of the team that won promotion back to the Primera in 1985.

In 1988 Costas was part of the Racing Club team that won the Supercopa Sudamericana, their first major title in 21 years, they then went on to win the less prestigious Supercopa Interamaricana.

Costas left Racing Club in 1992 to join Swiss team FC Locarno, after playing over 100 games for them he returned to Racing club in 1994.

Costas left Racing Club in 1995 having played in a club record 298 games, scoring six goals. He joined Gimnasia de Jujuy where he played until his retirement in 1997.

Costas then took charge as manager of Alianza Lima in Peru in 2003, he immediately led them to success in the Clausura 2003, and then saw his team win the Primera División Peruana final against Sporting Cristal.

In 2004, he led Alianza to the Apertura 2004 title and another chance to win the final of the Primera División where they again defeated Sporting Cristal, this time 5-4 on penalties.

In 2005 Costas became manager of Cerro Porteño in Paraguay, under his leadership the club won both the Apertura and Clausura in 2005 to be crowned undisputed national champions.

In 2007 Costas returned to Racing Club for his second spell in charge of "La Academia". Costas has currently signed a 2-year contract to manage Olimpia of Paraguay starting at the 2008 season.

In 2009 Costas returned to Alianza Lima and led them to play the final against Universitario.

On 18 July 2011, he signed for Al Nassr FC from Saudi Arabia.

On November 30, 2011 Due to its very poor season as coach of Al Nassr FC and all the fans angry with his work, club officials decided to end his contract.

On April 11, 2012 Costas became the head coach of Ecuadorian club Barcelona.[1] Costas had signed a one-year contract ending in June 2013. Costas won the first stage which secured Barcelona a spot to the 2012 Copa Sudamericana, 2013 Copa Libertadores and the third stage of the Ecuadorian Serie A.[2] On December 2, 2012 Barcelona won the second stage, automatically becoming the champion of the 2012 Ecuadorian Serie A.[3] Costas has extended his contract until December 2013.[4]

On 6 June 2019, Costas was appointed manager of Club Guaraní.[5]

Managerial statistics

Managerial statistics
As of 22 April 2022
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nat From To Record
G W D L Win %
Racing Club 1 January 1999 22 May 2000 35 9 15 11 025.7
Guaraní 1 July 2001 10 April 2003 71 30 14 27 042.3
Alianza Lima 21 April 2003 31 December 2004 97 55 21 21 056.7
Cerro Porteño 1 January 2005 25 April 2007 24 9 7 8 037.5
Racing Club 5 May 2007 4 December 2007 30 11 9 10 036.7
Olimpia 1 January 2008 29 August 2008 48 15 13 20 031.3
Alianza Lima 1 January 2009 17 July 2011 111 55 25 31 049.5
Al Nassr 18 July 2011 29 November 2011 7 2 2 3 028.6
Barcelona SC 11 April 2012 10 August 2013 76 33 24 19 043.4
Santa Fe 1 July 2014 30 May 2015 50 27 13 10 054.0
Atlas 1 January 2016 27 April 2016 21 4 5 12 019.0
Santa Fe 21 July 2016 9 June 2017 53 22 18 13 041.5
Al-Fayha 6 November 2017 15 October 2018 30 9 10 11 030.0
Guaraní 1 June 2019 14 June 2021 100 49 22 29 049.0
Palestino 1 January 2022 present 11 2 7 2 018.2
Total 764 332 205 227 043.5

Achievements

As a manager

Cerro Porteño

  • Primera División de Paraguay (1): 2005

Barcelona

Santa Fe

References
  1. Gustavo Costas: Nuevo entrenador de Barcelona S.C.
  2. Barcelona de dt costas gana primera fase de torneo ecuatoriano
  3. ¡Barcelona Campeón!
  4. Gustavo Costas extiende su contrato con Barcelona hasta diciembre del 2013
  5. Costas dirigirá a Guaraní, tigosports.com.py, 6 June 2019
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