{{Infobox football biography | name = Beto Acosta | image = | fullname = Alberto Martín Acosta Martínez | birth_date = 23 January 1977 | cityofbirth = Montevideo | countryofbirth = Uruguay | height = 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | position = Centre forward | currentclub = Brasiliense | clubnumber = 25 | youthyears1 = 1990–1994 | youthclubs1 = Defensor Sporting | years1 = 1994–1996 | clubs1 = Defensor Sporting | caps1 = 30 | goals1 = 18 | years2 = 1997 | clubs2 = Platense Wanderers | caps2 = 5 | goals2 = 2 | years3 = 1998–2005 | clubs3 = Club Sportivo Cerrito | caps3 = 294 | goals3 = 96 | years4 = 2005–2007 | clubs4 = CA Peñarol | caps4 = 41 | goals4 = 4 | years5 = 2007 | clubs5 = ASKO Kara | caps5 = 5 | goals5 = 0 | years6 = 2007–2008 | clubs6 = Náutico | caps6 = 43 | goals6 = 14 | years7 = 2008 | clubs7 = → Corinthians (loan) | caps7 = 36 | goals7 = 19 | years8 = 2009–2010 | clubs8 = [[Clube Náutico Capibaribe|Náutico]Brasiliense] | caps8 = 22 | goals8 = 4 | years9 = 2010 | clubs9 = → Defensor Sporting (loan) | caps9 = 0 | goals9 = 0 | years10 = 2010– | clubs10 = Brasiliense | caps10 = 20 | goals10 = 8 | nationalyears1 = 1995–2006 | nationalteam1 = Uruguay | nationalcaps1 = 23 | nationalgoals1 = 9 | pcupdate = 19:50, 20 June 2010 (UTC) | ntupdate = 10:25, 2 June 2010 (UTC)}}
Alberto Martín Acosta Martínez (sometimes spelt Alberto Martín Acosta Martinez, without the acute í in Martínez; born 23 January 1977 in Montevideo, Uruguay), more commonly known as simply Beto Acosta, is a Uruguayan football player who has amassed nearly 500 career league appearances and more than 150 (league) goals from the positions of striker, attacking midfielder and wingback for a variety of different clubs throughout South America, the exception being the brief spell he had with Togolese club ASKO Kara in 2007.
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Beto started his career at Defensor Sporting as a promising youth player, being fast-tracked into the first team and making his senior début for the club at the age of just 17. In two seasons, he scored 18 times in 30 league matches for Defensor.
He transferred to Platense Wanderers in 1997, making just 5 appearances in the domestic league, scoring twice, before joining Club Sportivo Cerrito the following year for 17,000 UYU.
He is perhaps best remembered for his time at Club Sportivo Cerrito, where he became a cult hero, scoring 96 goals in 294 league games (137 in 346 in all competitions), and captaining the club on more than 60 occasions. After leaving Cerrito, Beto suffered a dip in form which saw him be frozen out of the Uruguay national team for the first time in his career, a factor that would eventually lead him to retire from the international scene. He played for clubs in Uruguay and Brazil and, most unusually, even transferred to ASKO Kara of Togo for a few months in 2007.
Beto's exploits in Brazil saw him play most notably for Brazilian giants [Clube Náutico Capibaribe]], where he was reasonably successful.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcVbtA2MBO8&feature=related,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuj1uvmzr4w&feature=related Beto continued to ply his trade in Brazil until early 2010.
Fluctuating form for the team he played for after leaving Cerrito, CA Peñarol (he scored just 4 goals in 41 league games for the club), saw him weave in and out of the Uruguay national side, having been a regular whilst at Cerrito, and he was frozen out completely by Óscar Tabárez upon his appointment as Uruguay manager in February 2006, which ultimately led to Beto's decision to retire from international football in June of the same year, having scored 9 goals in the 23 caps he won, an impressive record.
Through his Brazilian mother, Beto is third cousins with naturalized Qatari midfielder Fábio César Montezine.
Beto has two children with his Brazilian wife Avrielle Leyna Acosta (née Silva), whom he met whilst playing for Corinthians in 2007. They are both boys, named Diego Gerardo Acosta (b. 2008) and Rodrigo-Balboa Alberto Acosta (b. 2010).
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