José Paulo Bezerra Maciel Juniorknown footballingly as paulinho, has recovered the smile in Brazil. The 34-year-old ex-Barça player started again 315 days later with the corinthiansa team in which he already played between 2010 and 2013, before landing in Europe, and to which he returned in January 2022 after a brief stint in Saudi football.
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The coach of ‘Timao’, Fernando Lazaroinitially bet on paulinho -applauded when he appeared in the scoreboard video of the Neo Química Arena- before the modest ituanianin the quarterfinals of the Paulista Championship, and he responded to his confidence by scoring for the second consecutive game.
It was running minute 35 when paulinhowho was substituted in the second half, headed in a great cross from Adson from the right and equalized in a match that ended up being decided from eleven meters after the draw at one final. The joy could not be complete for him, since the corinthians fell 6-7 in the penalty shootout, being ituanian the second semifinalist of the tournament.
He was reunited with the goal against Santo André
This season, paulinho he had played seven games so far, all of them coming off the bench. In the penultimate, in front of the saint andrethe midfielder was reunited with the goal – he had not scored since April 10, 2022, against Botafogo – making it 2-0 for his team in a duel that they won 3-1.
