Philippe Coutinho will return to its origin. At 32 years old and after 14 years abroad, the Brazilian playmaker has returned to Vasco da Gama, as the Rio club announced today.
“Philippe Coutinho has returned to Brazil and will wear the Vasco da Gama shirt,” the historic club reported in a statement. “He came on loan for a season and he will wear the number 11 shirt.”
Although it was a month ago, some information suggested that Coutinho He reached an agreement to leave Aston Villa, the latter following the owner of his pass until June 30, 2026, so the player was loaned to Vasco da Gama.
“It’s a feeling of great happiness, joy and I can’t wait to play. I’ve lived abroad for a long time, so it’s really a feeling of returning home, to the place where I grew up, to the club that I love. ,” he said. Coutinho on the Vasco da Gama website.
Aston Villa have given up on Coutinho during the 2023-2024 season Al Duhail of Qatar and now he does it at Vasco da Gama, the club where he started his career before making the movel Inter Milan in 2010. To the Milanese club, who loaned him spanish from January to June 2012, he served until 2013, when he sold it to Liverpool and this one Barcelona in January 2018 for 135 million euros. It was the most expensive signing for the Barça club, where it did not meet their expectations.
From Barça to Aston Villa
After transferring it the first time to Bayern Munich in the 2019-2020 season, Barcelona loaned him back to Aston Villa from January to June 2022 before he was transferred definitively that summer for 20 million euros to the English club, backed by Steven Gerrardthe coach of the ‘villains’ who paired with the Brazilian as a player at Liverpool.
At Aston Villa, after a promising end to the 2021-2022 season, his performance dropped the following season, due in part to muscle problems, and he barely managed a goal in 22 games. It’s not part of the plans Unai Emery, that relieved Gerrard at the head of the ‘villains’ in October 2022, hence the loan to Al Duhail. After his loan in Qatar ended, the Basque coach is still without him and now Coutinho go home.
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Throughout his career, the Brazilian player won the Coppa Italia (2011) and Italian Super Cup (2010) with Inter, LaLiga (2018 and 2019), Copa del Rey (2018 and 2021) and Spanish Super Cup (2018) . Barcelona, the Bundesliga (2020), DFB Pokal (2020) and Champions League (2020) with Bayern Munich and the Copa América (2019) with the Brazilian national team.
Source: La Verdad
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