Piccinato hails Corinthians’ comeback, celebrates seventh title

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·15 de setembro de 2025

Piccinato hails Corinthians’ comeback, celebrates seventh title

By Henrique Pereira / Central do Timão Editorial Team

Lucas Piccinato highlighted the Corinthians squad's ability to overcome adversity after winning their seventh Brasileirão Feminino title this Sunday, the 14th, against Cruzeiro. The coach emphasized the difficulty faced not only in the final, but throughout the entire competition.

“When you’re at the top, everyone is watching you. That’s a fact, and it’s been that way for seven years, and it will continue to be. What this group has that is very strong is the understanding that we need to look at ourselves to achieve what we want. Everyone is getting stronger. This year’s championship was definitely much harder than all the others. This year’s final was definitely much harder than in previous years. And everyone has been getting stronger, everyone has been working hard.”, he said in a press conference at Neo Química Arena.

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The coach also recalled Corinthians’ turbulent start in the Brasileirão, when the team, despite thrashing Instituto 3B, drew with São Paulo, Fluminense, and Red Bull Bragantino, and even lost at home to Palmeiras. Even so, the team managed the second-best campaign in the first phase, behind only Cruzeiro, but regained home advantage during the knockout stage, even beating their Minas Gerais rivals in the last round by 4-2.

“But if we look at ourselves, and that’s a bit of what this group is, very big, that when we look at ourselves as a group, we find alternatives. We started the season very badly, losing a title, starting the Brasileirão with a sequence of three games without a win. We beat 3B, drew with São Paulo away, a bad streak. And at that moment our only focus was on ourselves, on us as a team.”, he stated.

“We knew that we would only chase first place and put someone where we want if we looked at ourselves and worked really hard. This group worked. We went after it point by point, reducing the gap, catching up to the leader, until we had the head-to-head clash. We won at Fazendinha, entered the knockout stage able to steal the lead.”, the coach continued.

“The last two finals we lost, we didn’t play here and here it makes a huge difference. And being able to have that was thanks to the merit of this group that reinvented itself, went after it. It was a team that changed systems many times during the season, very capable of doing everything. So, it’s a huge merit of this group of players.”, he added.

Lucas Piccinato also recalled the recent frustrations of being runners-up in the 2024 Paulista, against Palmeiras, and the 2025 Supercopa, against São Paulo, which served as fuel for this achievement.

“I think the daily motivation is to win, to be champions, to reach the top and that has never changed. I know how heavy it is to be here, to wear this shirt and take on the responsibility of leading this project, after everything it has been through. But our goal has always been to reach the top, to get first place. Yes, in the last two competitions that didn’t happen, it frustrated us, it hurt us, but we can’t go back to the past, we have to work with what’s in front of us and we worked towards the Brasileirão.”, he commented.

“We are seven-time Brazilian champions and that is a huge achievement that we are going to celebrate a lot today and tomorrow. Football is a gigantic meat grinder. On Tuesday we already have to think about Juventude, on Wednesday we already have to think about the Paulista and you don’t even have time to celebrate a title that was certainly the hardest in history. We already have to switch gears. Being here is a bit about that and it will always be like that—whoever is here will always aim for the top and we will keep going after what Corinthians deserves.”, the coach concluded.

The celebration, as the coach reminded, will be short. Already on Wednesday, the 17th, at 3pm, Corinthians will host Juventude at Fazendinha, in a single match, for the round of 16 of the Women’s Copa do Brasil.

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