{"id":233595,"date":"2026-05-18T04:29:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-football-helder-costa-signs-two-seasons-at-petro-de-luanda\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T04:29:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:29:51","slug":"angola-football-helder-costa-signs-two-seasons-at-petro-de-luanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-football-helder-costa-signs-two-seasons-at-petro-de-luanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Football &#8211; H\u00e9lder Costa Signs Two Seasons At Petro De Luanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Luanda \u2014 Angolan international H\u00e9lder Costa is the first confirmed signing for Petro de Luanda for the 2026-27 season, with a contract valid for two seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The 32-year-old forward was officially announced on Wednesday (13) by the club and will have his first experience playing for a club in Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The player is currently in the Angolan capital and until recently was representing the Chinese team Yunnan Yukun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Formed by Sport Lisboa e Benfica, H\u00e9lder has played in England for Wolverhampton&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605150627.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luanda \u2014 Angolan international H\u00e9lder Costa is the first confirmed signing for Petro de Luanda for the 2026-27 season, with a contract valid for two seasons. The 32-year-old forward was officially announced on Wednesday (13) by the club and will have his first experience playing for a club in Africa. The player is currently in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":233596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,9653,3299,54416,3938,257,10236,33607,6428,254],"class_list":["post-233595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-costa","tag-football","tag-helder","tag-luanda","tag-news","tag-petro","tag-seasons","tag-signs","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}