Renowned signing for the 2022 Copa Libertadores…
Corinthians at the Centenario Stadium”>José Paulo Bezerra Maciel Júnior ‘Paulinho‘, who was part of the Brazilian team in the 2018 and 2014 World Cups, was presented this Friday as a reinforcement of Corinthians, a club to which he returns after eight years.
The 33-year-old player said that in his first cycle with the São Paulo team (2010-2013) he experienced “great things”, but guaranteed that now he wants to be remembered for what he “builds from now on”.
After a long break in the 2021 season, having resigned from Saudi Al-Ahli with only two months, the player indicated that he trained on his own to stay fit and now hopes to get “to the level as quickly as possible” and get under the orders of coach Sylvinho, another former Barcelona.
During his time at Corinthians, with whom he was league champion in 2011, Paulinho played 167 games, scored 34 goals and stood out in winning the Copa Libertadores and Club World Cup titles in 2012. In 2013 he signed for Tottenham and from the British club he went to the Chinese Guangzhou Evergrande, where he became an idol. Barcelona signed him in 2017. However, a year later, he returned to the Chinese club.
Regarding the possibility of playing in a World Cup for the third time, Paulinho stated that he is aware of his lack of continuity in 2021, “a complicated and difficult year.” That is why he hopes, first, to concentrate on Corinthians.
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