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published on 10/17/2020 3:48 PM / Updated on 10/17/2020 3:48 PM
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The case of the player Robinho has taken over the Brazilian sports spotlight in recent days. Hired by Santos, the 36-year-old striker was strongly questioned over the alleged case of rape that occurred in Italy in 2013. Such a negative impact, both with the fans and with the sponsors, caused the Vila Belmiro team to suspend the contract on Friday with the player. -market.
After the publication of the transcripts of the telephone interceptions, carried out with the authorization of the Italian Justice, Robinho finally broke the silence. TO Twitter, the player said Saturday that his only regret was cheating on his wife. The aggressor defended himself against the accusations he has suffered and also affirmed that any relationship he had with the woman who reported him was consensual.
“Look, I regret having cheated on my wife. This is my regret,” said the player, who at no time denied having had intimate contact with the girl. According to Robinho, everything that happened between the two was by mutual agreement and that he would have left before his friends had more physical contact with the woman.
“I didn’t have sex with her, no,” said the forward. “We had a relationship between a man and a woman, she touched me and I touched her, because she wanted to and I wanted to, but I never got to have sex with her,” he explained. “No penetration or anything.”
According to the investigation, Robinho and five other friends, including Ricardo Falco, who was also convicted, took a young woman of Albanian origin to the dressing room of a nightclub called Sio Café in Milan and sexually abused her there. The case happened on January 22, 2013, when the athlete defended Milan. The other suspects left Italy during the investigation, so their participation in the event is subject to another process.
“I left. I went home earlier. Then they told me, ‘With the consent of the girl, we did this and this.’ That’s what they really told me afterward,” Robinho explained. When asked if he was present at the event, the player denied it.
“When I left, the boys stayed there with their consent. I’m defending myself. The boys, if they did something to him, I can’t speak for them. I know what I did to him and with his consent. That’s what happened.”
The attacker tried to explain himself when asked about some phrases that, according to himself, could have been taken out of context or poorly translated into Italian. “They translated a lot of things out of context. In fact, that was a long time ago. And in the WhatsApp conversation we spoke, but never with disrespect, never disrespecting women. They said that men talk to each other, already You know, sexual relationship with the woman, with her consent, because she wanted to and that’s exactly it. “
