Robinho’s Life in Prison and Future Plans…
Former Manchester City star Robinho, once renowned for his dazzling footwork on the field, now spends his days in a Sao Paulo cell, tackling a different kind of game plan. After starting his nine-year sentence in March 2024, he’s ditched his football boots for a 600-hour electronics course. Some say his TV repair skills are so sharp, he can fix a plasma screen just by dribbling past it – though this remains unconfirmed. Robinho’s sentence followed a 2013 gang rape conviction, a grim end to his previous glittering career.
Robinho’s current cellmate isn’t a fellow footballer but hacker Walter Delgatti. Known as the ‘prison think tank,’ Tremembe is where the duo’s entrepreneurial spirit has flourished. They plan to launch a betting company once they swap their stripes for suits. Perhaps they’ll gamble on who can grow the juiciest tomato in the prison garden, though, for Delgatti, hacking into the produce scale might give him an edge! Meanwhile, Robinho keeps busy with work, family visits, and is dreaming of semi-open prison conditions just to see how green the pitch is on the other side.
