Biography and the life story of Phillipe Coutinho

Philippe Coutinho Correia was born on June 12, 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was born to Jose Carlos Correia and Esmeralda Coutinho. Coutinho is the third child of the couple. He grew up in a small village in the city of Rio.

Coutinho was born into a family of mediocre. Both parents are often overwhelmed to make money. However, for the sake of survival, anything is done to still be able to eat despite poverty.

Since childhood, Coutinho has shown interest in football. He often saw his two brothers, Cristiano and Leandro, while playing football with his friends.

However, Coutinho is still very embarrassed to play and join with his peers. He claimed that he did not have the confidence to play with others. Until finally the grandmother urged Countinho's father to develop his children's talents in a more secure place.

Initially, Coutinho only played soccer on the futsal court. He continued to hone his skills on a field smaller than real football. After playing futsal long enough, Coutinho's talent was wafted by the club's youth team coach Vasco da Gama.

Join Vasco Da Gama ...

After holding talks with his parents and conducting a trial, Coutinho finally agreed to join and officially became a young player at the local club.

Together with Vasco de Gama, Coutinho continued to display attractive games until he was finally called up by the Brazilian U-15 national team.

Recruited by Inter ……

Knowing Coutinho's talent, Inter Milan are interested in signing him. In 2008, with a dowry of around 4 million euros or around Rp. 64 Billion, Coutinho, who was then 16 years old officially joined Inter Milan.

Despite being an Inter player, Coutinho was loaned to Vasco da Gama for two years. This is related to the rules of Italian football. There must be no foreign players under 18 years who join a professional club there.

Coutinho is growing with Vasco da Gama. He even succeeded in bringing his team won the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B in 2009. Coutinho was transformed into a key player by shooting 5 goals in 31 appearances.

In the same year Coutinho was also included in the Brazilian champions squad who won the South American U-17 Cup.

Because of his prowess in processing the round skin. He earned the nickname 'the magician'. Of course, the nickname comes from his special talents.

After his loan spell at Vasco da Gama was over, he hurried to Inter Milan. He underwent his debut match with La Beneamata on August 27, 2010 when he entered as a substitute to face Atletico Madrid in the European Super Cup.

Debut in the senior national team ……….

Meanwhile, on 7 October 2010, Coutinho made his debut with the Brazilian Senior Team under the care of Mano Menezes in a 3-0 win in a trial match against Iran. While one year later he also became part of the Brazil U-20 which won the FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Coutinho was loaned less by a large hand for the team, on loan at Inter to Espanyol in January 2012. In Espanyol, Coutinho admitted that he felt more comfortable.

Married to Aine ....

In May 2012, Coutinho also entered into a marriage with his idol woman named Aine. Aine itself is a citizen of Portugal. He has been a lover of Coutinho for a long time, they have been dating for quite a long time. Now their marriage has been blessed with two children named Maria Coutinho and Philippe Coutinho Jr.

Playing for Liverpool ……

After his loan spell at Espanyol ended, Coutinho returned to Inter Milan in the summer of 2012. However, because he felt unfortunate with Inter, Coutinho then accepted an offer made by English club Liverpool on 30 January 2013.

With Liverpool, he debuted on 11 February 2013 against West Bromwich Albion. Did not take long, the Brazilian man immediately scored the first goal for the Reds Liverpool on February 17, 2013 when Liverpool managed to destroy Swansea City with a score of 5-0

A month later, Coutinho won the title of Liverpool's best player and won the Man of the Match award against Newcastle United. At that time, Liverpool managed to win with a score of 6-0.

Coutinho continued to play nicely with Liverpool, including in the 2013/14 season when he and his friends almost brought Liverpool the primary league champions.

In 2015, Coutinho extended his contract at Liverpool until 2020. In the same year, he won the PFA Fans Player of the Month title and made it into the PFA Premier League Team of the Year.

On May 19, 2015, Coutinho won the title of Liverpool's best player in the 2014/15 season, a year later he returned to get the same title.

Play for Brazil ...

Because of his flashy achievements with Liverpool, Coutinho was included in the Brazil squad that appeared at the 2015 Copa America. He opened his debut goal for the Brazilian national team when dealing with Mexico on 7 June 2015 in a trial match. At that time the samba team won with a score of 2-0. While in the 2016 Copa America centenario Coutinho scored his first hat trick with the Brazilian national team when destroying Haiti with a score of 7-1.

The experience of playing at Liverpool is very impressive. Because of his success, Coutinho always remembered with one name, his mother. His mother who always pushed himself to go forward had succeeded in forming the extraordinary character possessed by Coutinho.

At one time, former Liverpool coach Brendan Rodgers had read a letter from Coutinho's mother in front of all the Liverpool players. This is a tactic used by Rodgers to motivate his players.

In the 2017/18 season in the European Champions League group phase, Coutinho assumed the mandate of being the team captain because at the time Jordan Henderson was absent.

In addition to undergoing his first experience as captain, Coutinho managed to score three goals at once in the same match. At that time Liverpool managed to subvert the Spartak Moscow resistance with a score of 7-0.

Carried by El Barca .......

Despite extending his contract at Liverpool, Coutinho has finally faltered. He accepted the offer of the Spanish club, FC Barcelona on January 6, 2018. Some well-known British media said that the transfer would cost 142 million pounds or around Rp 2.58 trillion.

This makes Coutinho officially the second most expensive player in the world under Neymar who was brought by PSG from FC Barcelona in the 2017-2018 season at a price of 222 million euros (around Rp3.6 trillion).

While for 5 years costumed The Reds coutinho has performed 201 matches and scored 54 goals in all competitions.

Together with El Barca he debuted when Barcelona against his first club, Espanyol. The two met at the Copa del Rey event.

Besides wanting to join FC Barcelona, ​​another reason that underlies his intention to leave the team is because of Luis Suarez. Coutinho has a very good relationship with Luis Suarez. He claimed that Suarez was one of the reasons why he wanted to join Barcelona.

Switching Portuguese citizenship ...

In fact, not only that, in 2018 Coutinho was willing to switch Portuguese citizenship to make way for his club, Barcelona in order to buy one more player from Non-European Union. In the process of obtaining a passport he was assisted by his wife, Aine. Just like Lionel Messi who also has a Spanish passport and Luis Suarez has an Italian passport, they are counted as European citizens.

With el barca in the second half of the 2017/18 season Coutinho managed to become a mainstay in midfield, he appeared 22 times and scored 10 goals. In that season he won the Double Winner, namely the La Liga trophy and the Copa Del Rey.

His good performances with La Blaugrana made him included in the Brazil squad at the 2018 World Cup. He made his World Cup debut against Switzerland, not only that he also managed to score a goal in that match. In Russia Coutinho scored a total of 2 goals and 1 assist in 5 matches played by Brazil.

Now with Barcelona, ​​the player who idolizes Ronaldinho has become one of the important pillars of the team in winning various matches. And he will continue to be a Benalu for the opposing team, his dream is of course to win the Champions League.

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