Former Chelsea striker Diego Costa has revealed how he got N’Golo Kante angry while at Stamford Bridge and has degraded Atletico Madrid’s training facilities.
Costa was one of the very few to break Chelsea’s striker curse during his three years in the Premier League, winning the top flight two times with two 20-goal campaigns.
And he even manged to anger his nicest of teammates, A cult hero amongst Chelsea fans, Costa enjoys a similar reputation in LaLiga where he used to bully defenders as one of football’s great ‘s***housers’.
It used to be opposition players who got caught up in the striker’s infuriating antics, but as he’s now revealed himself, it was also his teammates too.
And not just any teammate, a man who is the opposite of Costa, French midfielder Kante, who’s considered by many as one of the nicest men in football.
But not when it came to Costa, whose wind up acts he had no time for. Speaking to Brazilian YouTube channel Pilhado, Costa recalled: “At Chelsea, I tried to hug Kante as a joke naked.
“He’s shy, I would undress in the shower and say, ‘Kante, give me a hug!’ and he very seriously told me ‘No, no, Diego’. “He didn’t even take off his underwear to shower.”
Either side of his iconic and successful stretch in the Premier League, Costa played for Atletico Madrid, a team he left for the final time in 2021.
The 33-year-old forward won two LaLiga titles with the side, but revealed the club’s facilities weren’t up to scratch for world class players.
“Atletico de Madrid is not at a European level [club] either, it’s all a lie,” he said. “There, in terms of structure, quality that it gives to the player, food, that’s top, 100 per cent, at Atletico de Madrid they don’t have it.
After his second spell in Madrid came to an end, Costa signed up with Brazilian club Atletico Mineiro, but his time with the club ended after only one year.
Costa spent much of the interview flirting with Brazilian giants Flamengo ahead of a possible move, but was far from flattering about Mineiro.
“European level? No, I’m not going to lie to you,” he said of his last team. “The training locker room was shit and the academy is also dead.”
