![SON OF A GUN: Domenic Costanzo tries to slide a pass past Nikolai Topor-Stanley at Jets training. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers SON OF A GUN: Domenic Costanzo tries to slide a pass past Nikolai Topor-Stanley at Jets training. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/AVQVfAtGgzehhK8J9F6uCU/a91c1d1a-0854-47fa-adfe-88d254919311.jpg/r0_186_4059_3260_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
ANGELO Costanzo played his final season as a professional with the Newcastle Jets.
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Now his son, Domenic, hopes to launch his A-League career in the same colours.
A goal-scoring winger, Costanzo is on a one-week trial in Newcastle - a city where he spent a year as an eight-year-old tagging along with his dad to training.
Costanzo came through the youth system at Adelaide United and is on a scholarship contract, but is yet to make his A-League debut.
"It wasn't working back home in Adelaide and I got an opportunity here so I thought I'd give it a crack and see what happens," Costanzo said. "Adelaide are doing very well and have Craig Goodwin, Ben Halloran and Tommy Juric and all those boys playing up front.
"When I got this opportunity, it was something I definitely wanted to do."
Angelo Costanzo was a classy, intelligent defender and former Socceroo and made 16 appearances for the Jets in the 2009-10 season.
Known for his trademark ponytail, he missed the finals series due to groin surgery and retired soon afterwards to return to Adelaide.
"We have met some fantastic people here and have friends for life," Costanzo told the Newcastle Herald before departing.
Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Ali Abbas, Jason Hoffman and Ben Kantarovski were also a part of the 2009-10 squad, which went down to Wellington in the minor semi-final.
"I was eight and don't remember much except that Ali Abbas and a lot of the other boys used to come over for dinner," he said.
However, he did lean on Topor-Stanley for advice about the trial.
"I spoke to Gundy and he said do the simple things. Get them right and when you get an opportunity to turn, that is when you do your thing," Domenic said. "Coming in when the season is nearly done, they have an objective still. I am just trying to fit in as much as I can and not disrupt them and also do my thing."
Costanzo's trial was nearly over before it began after he was involved in a car accident on the way to training Tuesday.
"I got T-Boned," he said. "Physically I was OK. "It felt like I was hit by two cars and ended up in a [storm water] drain. The first thing I thought was that I didn't have [coach] Craig Deans' number. I managed to get in touch with him and said I might be late. My priority was to get to training."
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