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Court Rules Robinho Must Serve Gang Rape Sentence In Brazil | Football News
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Court Rules Robinho Must Serve Gang Rape Sentence In Brazil | Football News

[ad_1] File image of Robinho© AFPFormer Manchester City and Real Madrid striker Robinho must serve a nine-year rape sentence -- imposed on him by an Italian court -- in Brazil, judges in Brasilia ruled Wednesday. The court ruled by nine votes to two in favor of an Italian request that Robinho serve his sentence in his home country after he was found guilty of taking part in the gang rape of an Albanian woman out celebrating her 23rd birthday at a Milan nightclub in 2013. Lawyers said Robinho, who was not present at Wednesday's hearing, would remain free pending a possible appeal against the ruling.Robson de Souza, popularly known as "Robinho," was convicted by an Italian court in 2017.The former Brazil international, now 40, was playing for AC Milan at the time of the crime.His sentence ...
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Convicted Of Rape, Ex-Brazil Star Dani Alves Freed On Bail For 1 Million Euros | Football News
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Convicted Of Rape, Ex-Brazil Star Dani Alves Freed On Bail For 1 Million Euros | Football News

[ad_1] File photo of Dani Alves.© AFPFormer Brazil international footballer Dani Alves is to be released from jail pending an appeal against his rape conviction in exchange for posting bail of one million euros ($1.08 million), a Barcelona court said Wednesday. The ruling came a day after his lawyer requested the 40-year-old's release on grounds he had already served a quarter of his four-and-a-half-year sentence in pre-trial detention following his arrest in January 2023. In its ruling, the court granted him "provisional release" in exchange for "the bail payment of 1,000,000 euros" also requiring he hand over his Spanish and Brazilian passports, remain in Spain and present himself to court "on a weekly basis".Public prosecutors had opposed his request, arguing he posed a high-flight ri...
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Robinho Awaits Fate On Serving Nine-Year Rape Sentence In Brazil | Football News
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Robinho Awaits Fate On Serving Nine-Year Rape Sentence In Brazil | Football News

[ad_1] Brazil's justice system on Wednesday will decide whether former Manchester City and Real Madrid striker Robinho will serve his nine-year rape sentence, handed down by an Italian court, in the South American country. Brazil's Superior Court of Justice (STJ) will examine the Italian request to approve the prison sentence that was imposed in 2017 and ratified in 2022. "I hope that here in Brazil I can have the voice that I didn't have there," Robinho, who has protested his innocence, said in an interview with Brazilian network TV Record on Sunday.Robson de Souza, popularly known as "Robinho", remains free despite his conviction for being among a group of six men who gang raped a young Albanian woman out celebrating her 23rd birthday at a Milan nightclub in 2013.Former Brazil internat...
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Brazil’s Vinicius Junior Uses Football To Stimulate Young Brazilian Minds | Football News
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Brazil’s Vinicius Junior Uses Football To Stimulate Young Brazilian Minds | Football News

[ad_1] At a primary school in football-mad Brazil, pupils are spurred to academic greatness in classrooms resembling soccer pitches -- with a virtual avatar inspired by star forward Vinicius Junior cheering on every correct answer. Perched on football-patterned cushions on classroom floors of artificial grass, they learn on tablets and smartphones using an app created by the Vini Jr Institute, started by the Real Madrid athlete to improve public education in disadvantaged communities."I learn better when I use the app, it's easier, it looks like a game," 11-year-old Ana Clara da Silva told AFP in Sao Goncalo, Vinicius's birthplace on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.Da Silva attends the Visconde de Sepetiba municipal school, one of ten in four Brazilian states to have received educational...
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Footballer Dani Alves Begins Barcelona Trial For Rape | Football News
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Footballer Dani Alves Begins Barcelona Trial For Rape | Football News

[ad_1] Brazilian footballer Dani Alves, a former star at Barca and PSG, goes on trial Monday in Barcelona accused of raping a woman in a local nightclub. Prosecutors are asking for a nine-year prison sentence, followed by 10 years of conditional liberty. They are also asking he pay 150,000 euros ($162,000) in compensation to the woman. The trial opens at 9 am GMT and is due to wrap up Wednesday. The 40-year-old former Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain defender has been in jail since his arrest in January 2023 after a woman accused him of raping her in a bathroom of the VIP area of the ups...
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Footballer Dani Alves Set For Rape Trial In Spain | Football News
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Footballer Dani Alves Set For Rape Trial In Spain | Football News

[ad_1] Former Brazil football star Dani Alves will go on trial Monday in Barcelona for allegedly raping a woman at an upscale nightclub, with prosecutors seeking a nine-year jail sentence. The high-profile trial is scheduled to start at 10 am (0900 GMT) at a court in Spain's second city where the 40-year-old former Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain player has been in jail since his arrest in January 2023. A young woman accuses Alves of raping her in a bathroom of the VIP area of the upscale Sutton nightclub in Barcelona in the early hours of December 31, 2022. Alves has said he had conse...
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“Lionel Messi Is Short, Trash”: YouTuber Tells Ronaldo. Then… | Football News
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“Lionel Messi Is Short, Trash”: YouTuber Tells Ronaldo. Then… | Football News

[ad_1] File photo of Lionel Messi.© AFPFamous YouTuber Speed recently visited Ronaldo Nazario and several videos of the meeting are going viral on social media for various reasons. In one of the viral clips, Speed even made an outrageous claim by calling Lionel Messi a "trash". In the viral clip, Speed gets extremely excited after getting to see Ronaldo Nazario's Ballon d'Or award. After which the Real Madrid legend says the 18-year-old that Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi have much more Ballons d'Or than him. To this, Speed replies, "No, Ronaldo has much more, not Messi.""You love (Cristiano) Ronaldo more than Messi?" asks Nazario."I don't like Messi because he (Messi) is short and he's trash. Cristiano Ronaldo is better."The Brazilian legend laughed and said that he loves them both.Speed t...
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Brazil Says Goodbye To Late Football Great Mario Zagallo | Football News
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Brazil Says Goodbye To Late Football Great Mario Zagallo | Football News

[ad_1] Brazilians paid their last respects on Sunday to football legend Mario Zagallo, a four-time World Cup-winning player and coach who died at age 92 and was the final member of one of the country's greatest generations in the beloved sport. A steady stream of mourners -- dressed in black, and the yellow of the Brazilian national team or the colors of the numerous clubs where Zagallo played and coached -- filed past his coffin at the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), whose facade sported a giant banner in his honor.On display near the lace-draped coffin were football-mad Brazil's record five World Cup trophies. Zagallo, a diminutive left-wing known for his tactical brilliance, had a hand in winning four of them, more than anyone in football history.The "Profe...
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Carlo Ancelotti Snubs Brazil, Commits To Real Madrid | Football News
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Carlo Ancelotti Snubs Brazil, Commits To Real Madrid | Football News

[ad_1] Carlo Ancelotti extended his contract with Real Madrid to June 2026 on Friday which would rule him out of becoming Brazil national coach. "Real Madrid and Carlo Ancelotti have reached agreement on the extension of his contract till June 30, 2026," Real said in a statement. It had been reported in July this year that 64-year-old Ancelotti would become the first foreigner to coach Brazil in almost 60 years once he saw out his present Real contract next year. The Brazil Football Confederation had named Fernando Diniz as the temporary manager before they anticipated Ancelotti taking control for the 2024 Copa America. Ednaldo Rodriguez, the then president of the CBF, held months of negotiations with Ancelotti, who had previously stated the Real job would be his last in football.However...
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Pele ‘Would Have Been Sad’ At State Of Brazil Team, Says Son | Football News
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Pele ‘Would Have Been Sad’ At State Of Brazil Team, Says Son | Football News

[ad_1] Pele "would have been sad" at the state of the current Brazilian national team, his son Edinho has told AFP in an interview days before the first anniversary of his death on Friday. Brazil have struggled in qualifying for the 2026 World Cup and presently occupy sixth place in the South American table, the last spot that affords direct qualification. The Selecao have struggled without their biggest current star, Neymar, who is a long-term injury absentee after tearing knee ligaments."This crisis didn't appear overnight, there are big and complex problems," said Edinho, 53, who is one of Pele's seven children."We are experiencing a decline... we still have great players but in previous times we had more high-level players than we do today."Edinho, who was raised by his mother as Pel...
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