“I’m very ambitious and this project is right up my street” | OneFootball

Joining a club with the size and history of FC Porto represents, for Leandro Costa, “a very good step.” The new goalkeeper is described as “agile, quick and good with his feet” and is eager to “play in a Dragão Arena full of fans supporting the team” in futsal. Although he acknowledges that “the ambitions are very great, but the expectations are too,” the number 21 is committed to “helping the team achieve the Club’s goals” and “doing very beautiful things.”

Blue and white “It is a very special moment. Arriving at a club with the greatness and history of FC Porto is a very good step. I am one more person becoming part of this huge project. Our ambition is very great, but the expectations are too, so we will try to live up to them.”

An opportunity impossible to turn down “It all happened very quickly. I am very grateful to play for a club of this size. I’m very happy. The greatness of the Club was what weighed most, but the demands of the project also won me over. That is what brought me here.”

The futsal journey “I made my debut at 17 for CS São João and, at the time, I was still of youth age. In my last year as a junior I moved to Braga and also spent time at SCU Torreense, but I ended up returning. It has been a good career and I feel proud. I managed to reach very good levels, be involved in the big decisions and become a better person and goalkeeper all the time. I hope that experience can help me achieve the collective goals at FC Porto.”

His characteristics “I am an agile and quick goalkeeper who can help in play with his feet. I am a very ambitious person and I think this project suits me and suits the Club. It is an ambitious and competitive project and I fit those two parameters.”

Goals for 2026/27 “Individual ambitions always depend on the collective ones. Obviously I want to win. Every week the message will always be to win the next game. We cannot think too far ahead. We will take it game by game. We know we are in the Third Division and that we have a good team, but we have to show it on the court. On an individual level, I hope to help the team in every way I can, whether on or off the court.”

The debut at the Dragão Arena “I have already imagined the arena full and the crowd supporting us and cheering for us. It will be a fantastic atmosphere and I believe things will come together in an incredible way.”

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