Igor Paixão completes historic milestone in Europe

The attacker Igor Paixão has just completed a historic milestone with Feyenoord, from the Netherlands. The 24-year-old player completed 100 games for the European club and also celebrated his contract renewal.

Igor Paixão’s new contract with Feyenoord runs until 2029. Recently, he has been in the sights of major European clubs, such as Liverpool. THE Coritibathe club that revealed the player, still owns 20% of his economic rights in the event of a new sale.

Feyenoord bought 80% of Paixão’s economic rights for 8 million euros, around R$41 million, biggest sale in club history alviverde.

Wearing the Dutch club’s shirt, Igor Paixão has already played 100 games, scored 23 goals and provided 17 assists. THE Brazilian became the athlete with the most assists in this year’s Champions Leaguewith three in total.

Piá do Couto had a difficult start at Coritiba

Igor Paixão suffered at the beginning of his career at Coritiba. Piá do Couto, he moved up to the main group along with names like Henrique Vermudt and Igor Jesus after competing in the 2019 São Paulo Junior Football Cup. Paixão debuted in the main team at the State Championship, but played only 11 matches that year, did not score no goals and ended up loaned to Londrina the following year.

Igor Paixão’s story began to change at the club in the interior of Paraná. The striker played 31 games and scored four goals for Londrina’s main team and helped the club gain access from Series C to Series B of the Brazilian Championship. This contributed to Igor Paixão returning to Coritiba with more morale.

The striker won the starting line-up in the 2021 Paraná Championship, with Gustavo Morínigo in charge of alviverde, and never left the team. Paixão scored 10 goals that season – three in the State and seven in Series B – and finished behind only Waguininho (11 goals) and Léo Gamalho (16 goals) among Coxa’s top scorers.

Igor Paixão “exploded” once and for all in 2022. The 22-year-old player scored 11 goals and provided 10 assists in 37 games. With this, the striker helped Coritiba win the state title, became the player with the most goal contributions among all Serie A players and, of course, caught the attention of clubs in Brazil and abroad.