Moacir Costa da Silva (born 14 February 1986 in Recife), simply known as Moacir, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Caxias. Mainly a defensive midfielder, he can also play as a right back.

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Moacir
Personal information
Full name Moacir Costa da Silva
Date of birth (1986-02-14) 14 February 1986 (age 38)
Place of birth Recife, Brazil
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team
Caxias
Youth career
–2005 Sport Recife
2005–2006 Central
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007 Central 2 (0)
2008–2009 Sport Recife 45 (1)
2010–2011 Corinthians 27 (0)
2011–2013 Sport Recife 89 (3)
2013 Paraná 26 (2)
2014 Coritiba 9 (0)
2015Boa Esporte (loan) 32 (3)
2015–2016 Fortaleza 10 (0)
2016 Luverdense 15 (0)
2016 Novorizontino 7 (0)
2017 Luverdense 31 (1)
2018 Ferroviária 14 (3)
2018Vila Nova (loan) 33 (0)
2019–2020 Atlético Goianiense 51 (2)
2020 CRB 15 (0)
2021 Criciúma 16 (0)
2021–2022 Vila Nova 50 (0)
2022 Figueirense 14 (0)
2023– Caxias 50 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 05:18, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
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Club career

Moacir joined Central after being released by Sport's youth team. He turned professional with the team in 2006. In 2008 he played in Série C and Copa do Brasil with the club.[1] He was spotted by Sport and resigned with the club in June 2008.[2] Moacir retrained as a right-back whilst at Sport, and featured for them in the 2008 Copa do Brasil final and in the 2009 Copa Libertadores.

Moacir signed for Corinthians in 2010 in an arrangement which saw the transfer of all his rights to the club.[3] He negotiated release from his contract in May 2011 and resigned for Sport Recife.[4]

Released by Sport in 2013, Moacir signed for Paraná.[5] Then in 2014 for Coritiba.[6] He missed a large part of the season after a heart condition was discovered whilst on trial at Figueirense.[7] In 2015, recovered, he was loaned to Boa Esporte.[8] In April 2015 he signed for Fortaleza.[9] He was released in May 2016 after seeing little game time with the club.[10] A month later he signed for Luverdense.[11]

In 2017 Moacir signed for Grêmio Novorizontino for the first half of the season, and then for a second spell at Luverdense to play in Série B in April.[12][13] In 2018 he moved to Ferroviária and then moved to Vila Nova to play Série B in the second half of the season.[14][15]

For 2019 Moacir signed for Atlético Goianiense.[16]

Honours

Sport
Fortaleza
Luverdense

References

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