Douglas Coutinho Gomes de Souza (born 8 February 1994 in Volta Redonda) is a Brazilian

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who plays as a striker for Khanh Hoa after spells in Brazil, Portugal, Korea, and the UAE. A Cruzeiro and

Atletico Paranaense Club Athletico Paranaense (commonly known as Athletico and formerly known as Atlético Paranaense) is a Brazilian football team from the city of Curitiba, capital city of the Brazilian state of Paraná, founded on March 26, 1924. The team ...

product, Douglas Coutinho broke into the first team with Atletico Paranaense in the 2013 season, regularly appearing in Atletico's 2013 and 2014 campaigns. Following a reduced role in Atletico's 2015 campaign, Douglas Coutinho was loaned twice in 2016 to Cruzeiro and

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. After making 33 appearances for Atletico-PR in the 2017 season, Coutinho was loaned again to

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and second division side

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in 2018 before finding more success on a 2019 loan to Korean second-division side

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, where he scored nine goals. Douglas Coutinho moved to second division Brazilian side Operario Ferroviario in January 2020 on a yet another loan made permanent that July on a free transfer. Following a loan to Emirati side Al-Fujairah, Coutinho moved on a free transfer to Vila Nova, before being released some weeks later on September 29, 2021. Coutinho found stability at

Londrina Londrina (, literally "Little London") is a city located in the north of the state of Paraná, South Region, Brazil, and is away from the state capital, Curitiba. It is the second largest city in the state and fourth largest in the southern regi ...

in the Brazilian Serie B in the 2022 season, starting a career-high 31 league games and all but one of Londrina's 12 matches in a Parana championship run cut short by his old club Atletico Paranaense in the quarterfinals, but transferred to Tapajos on a free on January 1 2023, who immediately loaned him to

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side Ferroviaria for three months before he transferred back to Londrina on April 3 2023, who released him on April 29 2023. Douglas Coutinho joined Vietnamese side Nam Dinh FC on June 12 2023.

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