Filomeno Junior da Costa (born 21 June 1998), simply known as Filomeno, is a

Timor Timor (, , ) is an island at the southern end of Maritime Southeast Asia, in the north of the Timor Sea. The island is Indonesia–Timor-Leste border, divided between the sovereign states of Timor-Leste in the eastern part and Indonesia in the ...

ese

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who plays as a

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for

SLB Laulara Associação Desportiva e Sport Laulara e Benfica or SLB Laulara in short, is a professional association football, football team from Laulara, Aileu District, Timor-Leste, that plays in the Liga Futebol Amadora. The club have 1 Liga Futebol Amado ...

and the Timor-Leste national team.

Club career

SLB Laulara

Filomeno played domestic football for

of the

Liga Futebol Amadora Liga (Spanish and Portuguese: ''League'') or LIGA may refer to: Sports Basketball * Liga ACB, men's professional basketball league in Spain * Liga Femenina de Baloncesto, women's professional basketball league in Spain Football Latin Ameri ...

for which he served as

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. In January 2022, the player expressed an interested in playing in neighboring

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's Liga 1, particularly for

Persija Jakarta Persatuan Sepakbola Indonesia Jakarta ( 'Indonesian Football Association of Jakarta'), abbreviated as Persija (), is an Indonesian professional Association football, football club based in the Indonesian capital city of Jakarta. Persija Jaka ...

Benfica de Macau

In February 2023, Filomeno joined Benfica de Macau of

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Liga de Elite Liga de Elite (; ), previously known as Campeonato da 1ª Divisão do Futebol, is the top division of the Associação de Futebol de Macau, Macau Football Association, created in 1973. The league features local players and professional foreign pl ...

. He was joined at the club by fellow Timorese international João Pedro da Silva Freitas. In a January 2023 interview, national teammate Jhon Frith identified both players as two of their nation's top footballers.

International career

Filomeno represented Timor-Leste at the youth level, beginning with the under-14 level. In 2013 he scored against Myanmar in AFC U-14 Championship qualification. He made his senior international debut on 12 October 2018 in a friendly against

Cambodia Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. It is bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, and Vietnam to the east, and has a coastline ...

. In January 2022, he scored an

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in a 1–4 friendly against

in what head coach Fábio Magrão called an otherwise satisfactory performance by the young players. Also in 2022, he captained the national under-23 team for the

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. In December 2024, Filomeno was named in Timor-Leste's 26-man squad for the

2024 ASEAN Championship The 2024 ASEAN Championship (officially the ASEAN Mitsubishi Electric Cup 2024 due to sponsorship reasons) was the 15th edition of the ASEAN Championship (formerly the AFF Championship) association football, football tournament of nations affili ...

International career statistics

References

External links

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Macau Football profile
2000 births Living people East Timorese men's footballers Timor-Leste men's international footballers Men's association football defenders East Timorese expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Macau S.L. Benfica de Macau players Liga de Elite players People from Dili