Resenha da Sorte will be a one-off sponsor of Santos FC for the club's Copa do Brasil tie against Coritiba on Wednesday, April 22, at 19:30 at Vila Belmiro, with the brand to appear on the master costas of the players' shirts.
The match is the first leg of the fifth phase of the Copa do Brasil, the stage that introduces Serie A teams into the competition. Santos arrives at Vila Belmiro after a 3-2 home loss to Fluminense and a run of four matches without a win in its last five games; the club sits 15th in the Brazilian Championship with 13 points. Coritiba, by contrast, comes off a 2-0 victory over Atlético-MG, carrying a four-match unbeaten run and occupying seventh place in the national table.
The historical ledger between the clubs underscores why the match has extra weight at Vila Belmiro: according to oGol, Santos and Coritiba have met 53 times, with Santos winning 31, drawing nine and losing 13. Santos has hosted Coritiba 24 times, with 18 wins, four draws and two losses; Santos has not lost at home to Coritiba since the 3-2 defeat on August 17, 2011, when Jeci, Leo Gago and Marcos Aurélio scored for Coritiba and Borges netted Santos' goals while Pará and Edu Dracena were sent off. Since that 2011 loss, the clubs have met at Vila Belmiro 11 times, producing 10 Santos wins and one draw, and the last meeting at the stadium was a 4-0 Santos win in Serie B in 2024.
The sponsorship is tightly timed to that match. Resenha da Sorte said the partnership with Santos FC means “much more than visibility,” calling it an opportunity to reach a passionate audience and to combine emotion, transparency and a real chance to win. The brand's placement on the back of the shirts will be visible to fans at Vila Belmiro and to television audiences for a fixture that doubles as a knockout tie.
The friction in this fixture is plain: Santos' strong historical home record against Coritiba should give the hosts confidence, but the recent run of results and the 3-2 loss to Fluminense expose vulnerabilities that Coritiba will seek to exploit. Coritiba's unbeaten run and recent win over a top opponent suggest the visitors are arriving with momentum, turning what might appear a routine home tie into one where form, not history, could decide the opening leg.
What happens next is immediate and consequential: the teams will play the first leg on Wednesday at 19:30 at Vila Belmiro, with the tie to be decided over two legs in this fifth-phase series that brings Serie A clubs into the Copa do Brasil. The result will determine the starting posture for the return match, and for Santos it is a chance to halt a poor run at home and lean back on an otherwise dominant head-to-head record against Coritiba.
Other matches scheduled the same Wednesday include Bahia hosting Remo at 19:00 at Arena Fonte Nova, Fortaleza facing CRB at 20:30 at Castelão in Serie B, and Bragantino against Mirassol at 21:30 at Cícero de Souza Marques in another Serie A clash.
