Luiz Felipe Scolari Said, coach
of Brazil, that he did not rule out the Atletico Madrid striker and current La
Liga's top scorer Diego Costa of his calculations, and that he may add him to
participate in the 2014 World Cup with the Seleção.
This comes at a time when
approaching the Spanish Football Federation to obtain permission from FIFA to
join Costa; supported by the desire of the player himself under Scolari ignored
him.
Scolari said in remarks to the
newspaper (Jlobosporta) on the issue of Costa controversial "we are
watching what is happening, the final list for the World Cup will be announced
in late May, Each Brazilian player has a chance to join the list."
And about the rumors of his
traveling to Madrid to dissuade Costa's decision to play for the Matador, the
veteran coach replied, "in Spain do not know something, they invent a lot
of things."
The paper stressed that the
Brazilian Football Federation has not received any notification on Diego Costa
so far, which means it is still under the request of the Samba team.
Costa 24 years old was born in
for Brazilian city Lagarto, has summoned to Seleção twice during the four
friendly matches against Italy and Switzerland, and then against Russia and
England, but he participated for five minutes only alternative, as Scolari
dropped him from the Confederations Cup participation.
According to FIFA rules, the
player who has more than one nationality can change his national team as long
as did not participate in one international match in an official competition.
Costa joined Atletico in 2007 at
the age of 18 coming from Sporting Braga, has been seconded to teams Celta Vigo
and Albacete and Valladolid and Rayo Vallecano, before returning to the
"Rokhiblancos" and currently offers fantastic levels forced Spain
coach Vicente Del Bosque to think about it.
And Diego costa obtained Spanish
citizenship after leading the oath of allegiance on the fifth of July last
year.
Here you can see some of Diego
Costa best skills and goals
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