Gustavo Costas

A Copa night, in every sense of the word, opened the semi-finals of the Copa Libertadores. The Maracanã witnessed the first leg of the semifinal between Filipe Luís’s Flamengo and Gustavo Costas’s Racing Club, two teams with very different paradigms and playing approaches, further contrasted by the context and the...

The 2024 Copa Sudamericana saw Argentina’s Racing Club, under the leadership of Gustavo Costas — a legend of the Argentinian side from his playing career who’s currently in his third stint as manager — defeat Fernando Diniz’s Cruzeiro 3-1. Under their ‘relationist’ coach, the Brazilian side dominated possession, as we...