Gino Coutinho (born 5 August 1982) is a Dutch former

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, who played as a

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Club career

Coutinho has played for

PSV Eindhoven Philips Sport Vereniging (; en, Philips Sports Association ), abbreviated as PSV and internationally known as PSV Eindhoven (), is a Dutch sports club from Eindhoven, Netherlands. It is best known for its professional football department, w ...

, NAC, Vitesse and ADO Den Haag in the Dutch

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. Only at Den Haag in the 2010/2011 season he claimed a regular place in the starting line-up, mainly because of injury to first choice goalkeeper

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. He left them to join

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in September 2014. He moved to AZ on a free in summer 2015.

PSV Eindhoven

Coutinho played for SV Real Lunet before he was discovered by PSV. In the 2000–01 season, Coutinho played four times for PSV. During the 2001–02 season, Coutinho failed to make an appearance for PSV, so he was loaned out to

Den Bosch s-Hertogenbosch (), colloquially known as Den Bosch (), is a city and municipality in the Netherlands with a population of 157,486. It is the capital of the province of North Brabant and its fourth largest by population. The city is south of th ...

for the following campaign.

International career

He capped for Netherlands in 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship in

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Honours

Club

PSV *

(1): 2000–01

References

External links

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Voetbal International profile
1982 births Living people Footballers from 's-Hertogenbosch Dutch sportspeople of Surinamese descent Men's association football goalkeepers Dutch men's footballers Netherlands men's youth international footballers Netherlands men's under-21 international footballers Eredivisie players Eerste Divisie players Derde Divisie players PSV Eindhoven players FC Den Bosch players NAC Breda players SBV Vitesse players ADO Den Haag players Excelsior Rotterdam players AZ Alkmaar players Jong AZ players NEC Nijmegen players Sparta Nijkerk players {{netherlands-footy-goalkeeper-stub