Carlo Yaír Costly Molina (; born 18 July 1982) is a Honduran professional
footballer
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who plays as a
striker for
Liga de Ascenso
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Latin Ameri ...
club Lone FC.
Prior to moving to Europe, he played with Platense, where he was the top scorer of the
Honduras Apertura in 2006–07.
Club career
Carlo Costly is the son of
Anthony Costly
Allan Anthony Costly Blyden (born 13 December 1954) is a Honduran former footballer who played at both professional and international levels, as a defender.
Career
Born in Tela, Costly played club football in Honduras Tela Timsa, Real España ...
. Despite being Honduran, he has close links to Mexico. His parents separated and his mother, soon after, married a Mexican. Costly moved to
Mexico City
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when he was 14 years old and lived there for the following 11 years where he kicked off his football career. He had spells in the
Mexican league
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with the reserve teams of
Atlético Celaya
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,
Monarcas Morelia,
Atlas
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and
Pumas UNAM
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.
He moved back to Honduras where the path to international success began. Despite leaving Mexico, Costly still keeps a house in the state of
Nayarit
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.
His big chance was given to him by
Club Deportivo Platense
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The club was founded on 4 July 1960 and in 1965 became the first champions of the Honduran National Football League. Their home ...
and, with them, he became the top scorer of the
Honduras Apertura 2006–07, scoring ten goals in 19 games.
His early success earned him a chance with Polish club
GKS Bełchatów
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History
GKS Bełchatów entered Poland's Klasa A in 1977 under the name of Węgiel Brunatny Bełchatów, and ...
, who loaned him for half a season. 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
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side
Plymouth Argyle
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, and supposedly linked with
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side
Leeds United
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, before being reported to be on trial with
Premier League
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side
Birmingham City
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. Costly remained at
GKS Bełchatów
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History
GKS Bełchatów entered Poland's Klasa A in 1977 under the name of Węgiel Brunatny Bełchatów, and ...
for the time being.
In January 2009, Costly joined Birmingham City of
the second tier of English football on loan until the end of the
2008–09 season. 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
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. The loan was not made permanent at the end of the season.
On 24 January 2010, Costly was bought by
SC Vaslui
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, signing a 3.5-year contract.
He was injured and treated in Italy where they told him he would recover before
2010 FIFA World Cup
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, but he was unable to rejoin the
Honduras national football team
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due to FIFA rules. He then went on to sign for
Atlas
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in Mexico, once he recovered from his injury.
Costly spent the latter part of the
2011 Major League Soccer season
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on loan with
Houston Dynamo
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. In September 2012,
Veria F.C. announced Carlos Costly's transfer.
Costly joined
China League One
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side
Guizhou Zhicheng
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on 24 July 2013. On 4 August, he scored two goals in his debut against
Yanbian Baekdu Tigers.
Costly signed with
Real España
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on 2 January 2014. After the
2014 World Cup
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, he stated he would not return to the national team. He joined
Gaziantepspor
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at the beginning of the
2014–15 season which was his first club since retiring from international duty.
In 2015 he joined
Olimpia and in 2019 he ended his stage at Olimpia, signing contract with
Marathón.
International career
Since scoring on his debut against
Trinidad and Tobago
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in 2007, Costly has been a standout performer for the
Honduras national team helping the ''Catrachos'' reach the semi-finals of the
CONCACAF Gold Cup
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in
2009
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and
2011
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. He is the Honduras national team's second-top goalscorer of all-time in Gold Cup matches, scoring eight goals, including a
hat-trick
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against
Grenada
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in the 2011 tournament.
He was an important member of the Honduran team that
qualified
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for the
2010 FIFA World Cup
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but was unable to play at the tournament finals due to injury.
Costly scored seven goals in 13 appearances in
2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
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, including a hat-trick against
Canada
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.
[ In June 2014, he was named in the Honduran squad for the ]2014 FIFA World Cup
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. Costly made his FIFA World Cup
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debut in a 3–0 defeat against France
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on 15 June. In the next match, he scored his country's first World Cup goal in 32 years as the team lost 2–1 to Ecuador
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. Costly started the final Honduras game of the 2014 FIFA World Cup but limped off injured in the 39th minute. Immediately after the match, Costly announced his retirement from the national team stating that "we have to give opportunities to the young players." Despite this, Costly was still called up to the Honduras national team for the 2018 World Cup qualifiers
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Costly's last ever match with Honduras was in a 0–0 draw with Australia
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in the first leg of the 2018 CONCACAF–AFC intercontinental playoff where he came on the 73rd minute replacing Anthony Lozano
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.
Career statistics
Club
International
:''Scores and results list Honduras goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Costly goal.''
Honours
Houston Dynamo
* MLS Eastern Conference
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: 2011
Olimpia
* Liga Profesional de Honduras
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* Liga Femenina de Baloncesto, women's professional basketball league in Spain
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Latin Ameri ...
: 2015–16 C
* Honduran Supercup
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: 2016 I, 2016 II
* CONCACAF League
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: 2017
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Marathón
* Honduran Supercup
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: 2019
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Individual
* Top goalscorers in Liga Nacional de Honduras: 2006–07 A
References
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1982 births
Living people
Honduran men's footballers
21st-century Honduran sportsmen
Footballers from San Pedro Sula
Men's association football forwards
Atlético Celaya footballers
Atlético Morelia players
Atlas F.C. footballers
Club Universidad Nacional footballers
Platense F.C. players
GKS Bełchatów players
Birmingham City F.C. players
FC Vaslui players
Houston Dynamo FC players
Veria F.C. players
Guizhou F.C. players
Real C.D. España players
Gaziantepspor footballers
C.D. Olimpia players
C.D. Marathón players
Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional de Honduras players
Honduran Liga Nacional de Ascenso players
Ekstraklasa players
English Football League players
Liga I players
Liga MX players
Major League Soccer players
Super League Greece players
China League One players
Süper Lig players
Honduras men's international footballers
2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
2014 FIFA World Cup players
Honduran expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico
Honduran expatriate sportspeople in Mexico
Expatriate men's footballers in Poland
Honduran expatriate sportspeople in Poland
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Honduran expatriate sportspeople in England
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Honduran expatriate sportspeople in China
Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey
Honduran expatriate sportspeople in Turkey