Virgilio Da Costa Neves (23 September 1881 – unknown[1]) was a Portuguese footballer who played as a forward for Spanish club FC Barcelona.
It was around this time that da Costa met the German Udo Steinberg, an industrial and electrical engineering from the same university and who also played for Mittweida BC, and they quickly established a great friendship.
[3] In addition to da Costa and Steinberg, Mittweida BC was also the football cradle of the likes of Antonio Alonso from Vigo, Juan Arzuaga, Adolfo Uribe and Luis Astorquia from Bilbao.
[2] Together with the likes of José Quirante, Romà Forns, Udo Steinberg and Carles Comamala, he helped Barça win the 1904–05 Catalan championship.
[5] In 1906 Virgilio Da Costa Neves returned to his native Porto to work as an engineer and his return coincided with the reactivation of Futebol Clube do Porto in 1906, and after his football career in Mittweida and Barcelona, he enthusiastically joined the new project, led by José Monteiro da Costa.