Coutinho at Fifa
Coutinho has been talking to Fifa about his progress at Inter and how he’s getting on with the players, particularly IRC.
It was not long before the former Liverpool manager was heaping praise on the teenager - praise that has been echoed by experienced Serie A observers and Coutinho’s team-mates, among them Colombian defender Ivan Cordoba: “He has a lot of technical ability and you can see he wants to play the right way. He’s also down-to-earth and relaxed, and he always makes himself available on the pitch.”
The dribble wizard, who was already taking language classes back in Rio de Janeiro, has also been brushing up his Italian, with Cordoba promising to help him expand his vocabulary. “He taught me two words in the first training session, both of them to do with man-marking,” explained the eager student. “He said he’d give me a couple more the following day.”
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