Brought up in Rio de Janeiro, Coutinho indicated monstrous ability and exceeded expectations in Vasco da Gama’s childhood framework. He was marked by Italian club Inter Milan in 2008 for €4 million and along these lines credited back to Vasco, where he turned into a key player. He made his introduction for Internazionale in 2010 and was viewed as the “eventual fate of Inter”, and was later lent to La Liga club Espanyol in 2012.
- Having shown up for Brazil from the under-14 group upwards, Coutinho turned into a key player in the Brazilian squad that won the 2009 South American Under-17 Football Championship, scoring three goals.
- Coutinho showed up in a Brazil shirt on 7 October 2010, beginning in a well disposed match against Iran. He was let alone for the last squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil by Luiz Felipe Scolari
- On 19 August 2014, Coutinho was called up to the national squad by the new mentor Dunga for the amicable matches against Colombia and Ecuador in September, and played the last 25 minutes of the match against Ecuador.
- On 29 March 2015, he was chosen to begin in Brazil’s 1– 0 cordial triumph over Chile in London.
- On 5 May 2015, Coutinho was incorporated into the squad for the 2015 Copa América,[95] and he scored his first worldwide objective on 7 June, amid a 2– 0 well disposed prevail upon Mexico at Allianz Parque.
- Coutinho was incorporated into Brazil’s squad for the Copa América Centenario in the United States. On 8 June, in the second gathering amusement at the Citrus Bowl, he scored a cap trap in a 7– 1 win against Haiti. Brazil did not progress past the gathering stage in the wake of losing 0– 1 to Peru.
- On 28 March 2017, Coutinho scored in a 3– 0 win against Paraguay that guaranteed Brazil’s 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification.[99]
- In May 2018 he was named in Tite’s last 23 man squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.