Career
He is currently the second all time top scorer in the Honduran Liga Nacional and was also the first to reach 150 goals. Now he is a teacher in Honduras. Costa along with Marcelo Ferreira are among the only naturalized Honduran nationals to have played for the Honduras national football team
Born in Brazil, Denilson moved to Honduras in 1991 and made his league debut in September 1991 for Olimpia against Súper Estrella, scoring the only goal of the game.
He spent his entire career in Honduras, except for short spells in Costa Rica with Limonense for whom he scored the fastest goal in Costa Rica"s premier division history in December 1990and Belén and in Guatemala with Heredia. He finished his playing career at Necaxa to become the club"s manager a few seasons later.
He played 481 matches is Honduran professional football, which is still a record. Denilson made his debut for his adopted homecountry Honduras in an October 2003 friendly match against Bolivia and has earned a total of 5 caps, scoring no goals.
His final international was a March 2005 friendly against the United States of America.
On 6 March 2011, Costa made his professional debut as coach with Communicative Disorders Necaxa in the 0–1 home defeat against Communicative Disorders Motagua.