Carlo Costly
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Carlo Yaír Costly Molina[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 18 July 1982 | ||
| Place of birth | San Pedro Sula, Honduras | ||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Olimpia | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2003–2007 | Platense | 19 | (10) |
| 2007 | → Bełchatów (loan) | 11 | (6) |
| 2007–2010 | Bełchatów | 48 | (8) |
| 2009 | → Birmingham City (loan) | 8 | (0) |
| 2010 | Vaslui | 13 | (4) |
| 2011–2012 | Atlas | 11 | (2) |
| 2011 | → Houston Dynamo (loan) | 11 | (1) |
| 2012–2013 | Veria | 25 | (6) |
| 2013 | Guizhou Zhicheng | 12 | (9) |
| 2014 | Real España | 13 | (7) |
| 2014–2015 | Gaziantepspor | 7 | (0) |
| 2015– | Olimpia | ||
| International career‡ | |||
| 2007–2014 | Honduras | 71 | (32) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13:00, 13 May 2015 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21 June 2014 | |||
Carlo Yaír Costly Molina (born 18 July 1982[2]) is a Honduran footballer striker who is currently playing for Olimpia. He was a member of the Honduras national football team until after the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Prior to his transfer to Europe, he played with Club Deportivo Platense where he managed to be the top scorer of Honduras Apertura 2006–07.
Club career
Carlo Costly is the son of Anthony Costly. His life is linked closely to the country of Mexico. His parents separated and his mother, soon after, married a Mexican native. Costly moved to Mexico City when he was 14 years old and lived there for the following 11 years where he kicked off his soccer career. He had spells in the Mexican league with reserve teams of Atlético Celaya, Monarcas Morelia, Atlas and Pumas UNAM.[3]
He moved back to Honduras where the path to his internationally successful career began. Despite leaving Mexico, Costly still keeps a house in the state of Nayarit.[3] His big chance was given to him by Club Deportivo Platense where he managed to be the top scorer of Honduras Apertura 2006–07, scoring 10 goals in 19 games.
His early success earned him a chance with Polish club GKS Bełchatów, who loaned him for half a season.[4] Having impressed, the club spent a record €500,000 on signing him.
After a while he became unsettled in Poland, and was linked in the press with a move to Football League Championship side Plymouth Argyle, and supposedly linked with League One side Leeds United, before being reported to be on trial with Premier League side Birmingham City.[5] Costly remained at PGE GKS Bełchatów for the time being.
In January 2009, Costly joined Birmingham City of the Football League Championship (the second tier of English football) on loan until the end of the 2008–09 season.[6] He made his debut for the club on 7 February 2009, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 1–1 draw with Burnley.[7] The loan was not made permanent at the end of the season.[8]
On 24 January 2010, Costly was bought by SC Vaslui signing a 3-5-years contract.[9] He was injured and treated in Italy where they told him he would recover before 2010 FIFA World Cup, but he was unable to rejoin the Honduras national football team due to FIFA rules. Hz soon signed for Atlas club in Mexico, once recovered from his injury. [10]
Costly spent the latter part of the 2011 Major League Soccer season on loan with the Houston Dynamo. In September 2012, Veria F.C. announced Carlos Costly's transfer.
Costly transferred to China League One side Guizhou Zhicheng on 24 July 2013.[11] On 4 August, he scored 2 goals in his debut against Yanbian Baekdu Tigers.[12]
Costly signed with Real España on 2 January. After the World Cup, he stated he would not return to the team. He joined Gaziantepspor at the beginning of the 2014/15 season and was his first club since retiring from international duty. On the 15 of August he returned to Greece for Greek giants Aris F.C.
Club statistics
- (correct as of 28 April 2013)
| Club | Season | League | Domestic League | Domestic Cups | European Cups | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Platense | 2006–07 | LINA | 18 | 10 | – | – | 18 | 10 | ||
| Total | 18 | 10 | – | – | – | – | 18 | 10 | ||
| Bełchatów | 2006–07 | Ekstraklasa | 11 | 6 | 2 | 2 | – | 13 | 8 | |
| 2007–08 | 26 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 33 | 5 | ||
| 2008–09 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | ||
| 2009–10 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | ||
| Total | 59 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 68 | 16 | ||
| Vaslui | 2009–10 | Liga I | 13 | 4 | – | – | 13 | 4 | ||
| Total | 13 | 4 | – | – | – | – | 13 | 4 | ||
| Veria | 2012–13 | Superleague Greece | 25 | 6 | 2 | 2 | – | 27 | 8 | |
| Total | 25 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 8 | ||
International career
Since scoring on his debut against Trinidad and Tobago in 2007, Costly has been a standout performer for the Honduras national football team helping the Catrachos reach the semi-finals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 2009 and 2011. He is the Honduran national team's second-top goalscorer of all-time in Gold Cup matches, scoring eight goals, including a hat-trick against Grenada in the 2011 tournament.
He was an important member of the Honduran team that qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup but was unable to play at the tournament finals due to injury.[13]
Costly scored seven goals in 13 appearances in 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification, including a hat-trick against Canada.[13] In June 2014, he was named in the Honduran squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.[14] Costly made his FIFA World Cup debut in a 3–0 defeat against France on 15 June.[15] In the next match, he scored his country's first World Cup goal in 32 years as the team lost 2–1 to Ecuador. Costly started the final Honduras game of the 2014 FIFA World Cup but limped off injured in the 39th minute.[16] immediately after the match, Costly announced his retirement from the national team stating that "we have to give opportunities to the young players" [17]
International goals
- Use dmy dates from July 2013
- 1982 births
- Living people
- People from San Pedro Sula
- Honduran people of African descent
- Association football forwards
- Honduran footballers
- Honduras international footballers
- 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
- 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
- 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
- 2014 FIFA World Cup players
- Monarcas Morelia footballers
- Platense F.C. players
- GKS Bełchatów players
- Birmingham City F.C. players
- FC Vaslui players
- Club Atlas footballers
- Houston Dynamo players
- Veria F.C. players
- Guizhou Zhicheng F.C. players
- China League One players
- Ekstraklasa players
- The Football League players
- Liga I players
- Major League Soccer players
- Superleague Greece players
- Honduran expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Mexico
- Expatriate footballers in Poland
- Expatriate footballers in England
- Expatriate footballers in Romania
- Expatriate soccer players in the United States
- Expatriate footballers in Greece
- Honduran expatriates in Poland
- Expatriate footballers in China
- Real C.D. España players