{"id":6063,"date":"2024-12-26T16:51:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T16:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betwealthsuretips.com\/blog\/rafinha-returns-to-coritiba-to-fulfill-the-promise-i-made-when-i-left\/"},"modified":"2024-12-26T16:51:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T16:51:01","slug":"rafinha-returns-to-coritiba-to-fulfill-the-promise-i-made-when-i-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betwealthsuretips.com\/blog\/rafinha-returns-to-coritiba-to-fulfill-the-promise-i-made-when-i-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafinha Returns To Coritiba: \u201cTo Fulfill The Promise I Made When I Left\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Help with promotion to Serie A <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tmssl.akamaized.net\/\/images\/foto\/galerie\/rafinha-sao-paulo-fc-2023-1690483758-112665.jpg\" title=\"Ex-Bundesliga professional Rafinha returns to Coritiba\" alt=\"Ex-Bundesliga professional Rafinha returns to Coritiba\"><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a9IMAGO<\/span>                                     <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At the age of 39, Rafinha returns to his youth club. The former Schalke and Munich player will join Coritiba FC on January 1, 2025 and will help the Brazilian second division club get promoted back to the S\u00e9rie A. Rafinha was at Coritiba from 2002 to 2005 before moving to the Royal Blues for 5 million euros. The right-back has played for S\u00e3o Paulo for the last three years.<\/p>\n<p>          <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am here to fulfill the promise I made when I left almost 20 years ago. I&#8217;m back in Coritiba, the club that discovered me and that opened the doors to the world of football for me. It is a pleasure to return and help Coritiba reach the level it deserves,\u201d Rafinha said in a club announcement on social media.<\/p>\n<p>    <\/p>\n<p>Coritiba&#8217;s main goal for 2025 is to return to the Brazilian top flight, which they were last part of in 2023. Rafinha played a total of 332 Bundesliga games for Schalke (2005 to 2010) and Bayern (2011 to 2019), the third most by a Brazilian in the German upper house.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Rafinha in the Transfermarkt interview.\" src=\"https:\/\/tmssl.akamaized.net\/\/images\/foto\/newsansicht\/rafinha-iv-spotlight-1689950792-112085.jpg?lm=1689950798%20%20%20%20 %20%20%20%20\" alt=\"Rafinha in the Transfermarkt interview.\" width=\"503\" height=\"274\"><\/p>\n<p>Rafinha in the Transfermarkt interview.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help with promotion to Serie A \u00a9IMAGO At the age of 39, Rafinha returns&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bundesliga-transfers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3.1 - 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