Reserve and no goal: how was Robinho’s last season in Turkey | Saints

In the 2019/2020 season, between the Turkish Championship, the Turkish Cup, the Champions League qualifying round and the Europa League, Robinho made only 25 official matches for Basaksehir, ten as a starter, and did not score any goals. .

Despite Robinho’s poor numbers, Basaksehir achieved the unprecedented national title and qualified for the first time in history for the Champions League. The cast also included another Brazilian, Júnior Caiçara.

Robinho had a contract with the Turkish club until the end of the local championship. The two parties chose not to renew the bond. Therefore, the player was free in the market to listen to offers.

Robinho came to Turkey in 2017 to defend Sivaspor. In the 2018/2019 season, the forward lived his best moment, when he was signed by Basaksehir. In 34 games (30 as a starter), he scored 12 goals.

Now, back in Santos, his club at heart, Robinho will try to relive the best moments of his career. But you still have to go through a period of physical reconditioning.

In the final round of the Turkish Championship, on July 26, he did not leave the bench. In the previous game, on July 19, he played only two minutes. The last game as a starter was on June 28, against Galatasaray, when he went to rest.

The last match in which he played the 90 minutes was more than a year ago: on September 1, 2019, against Gençlerbirligi, for the Turkish Championship.

By creating the base, Robinho will defend Santos for the fourth time. The forward has played 246 games and has scored 109 goals for Peixe. He was one of Alvinegro’s stars in the conquests of the Brazilian Championship in 2002 and 2004.

The Rei das Pedaladas returned two more times (2010 and 2014), when they won Paulistão (2010 and 2015) and the Copa do Brasil (2010).

Santos needs to register Robinho in CBF on Monday, even though it is a public holiday. This is because, on Tuesday, it will be worth another punishment of the club in FIFA, now for the debt of US $ 3.4 million (R $ 18 million, according to the price of this Wednesday) with Huachipato, from Chile, when signing the forward Soteldo. Fish will not be able to re-sign or register players.

Robinho was sentenced to nine years in prison for sexual violence in Italy. His defense appealed. According to the sentence, the crime occurred on January 22, 2013, along with five other men, and the victim is of Albanian origin. The sentence came in 2017, when the forward had already left Italian football, defending Atlético-MG at that time.

* Collaborated under the supervision of Carlos Augusto Ferrari.