Corinthians return after break, provide injury update on quartet

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·8. Oktober 2025

Corinthians return after break, provide injury update on quartet

By Fabio Luigi / Central do Timão Editorial Team

After three days off, during the FIFA break, Corinthians returned to training on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 8, at CT Dr. Joaquim Grava and began preparations for their next match in the Brasileirão Championship. On October 15, at 9:30 PM (Brasília time), the Alvinegro will visit Santos at Vila Belmiro for the 28th round of the Brazilian Championship.

Corinthians, through an official statement, updated the medical status of four players, who have started the physical transition process and are already partially training with the group. They are: defender André Ramalho (right thigh strain), midfielder Charles (recovering from knee pain), midfielder André Carrillo (ligament injury in the ankle), and midfielder Rodrigo Garro (grade 2 injury – swelling in the right calf).

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In an interview with Corinthians TV, the head of the Corinthians medical department, André Jorge, commented on the quartet and the physical transition process that all of them began this Wednesday (8): “The athletes who are coming back, who are leaving the medical department and returning to the transition, starting the transition now, are (André) Carrillo, Charles, (Rodrigo) Garro, and André Ramalho. They started this treatment, some of them began a while ago, like Carrillo, who has been in the Medical Department the longest at the moment. Garro, a little less, but still longer than the others. And Charles and André, who are athletes that have spent less time in the Medical Department.”

He went on to detail how the transition process works: “But all of them receive treatment with physiotherapy, with the Medical Department, even with medication, evaluations, and undergo routine imaging exams. These imaging exams, along with clinical evaluations, determine the stage of the injury so we can move on to the physical preparation and start this transition process. So, it’s a specialized multidisciplinary work of excellence, with all the professionals involved: physiotherapy, physiology, and physical preparation,” he said.

Physical trainer Reverson Pimentel also spoke about the situation of the quartet and the importance of this FIFA break period, highlighting the planning with the coaching staff up to the day of the Alvinegro derby in the Brasileirão: “The return was very good. We came from three days off. These were important days for the athletes to rest. We had come from a sequence of three games (Flamengo, Internacional, and Mirassol) in seven days. This week will be very productive. We have already planned with the coaching staff the training sessions up to the day of the Santos match. We also have some news these days, which are four athletes who are returning to the transition, partially joining the group,” he stated.

The Corinthians squad started the training day with an activation session in the gym and, afterwards, already on the field, there was a warm-up with a passing and rondo drill. The athletes also performed a positional rondo and possession exercise. Later, the coaching staff organized a ten-on-ten game on a reduced field.

It’s worth noting that the return to training did not include four athletes who are with their national teams for the FIFA break matches: goalkeeper Hugo Souza (Brazil), defender Félix Torres (Ecuador), and forwards Ángel Romero (Paraguay) and Memphis Depay (Netherlands).

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