Following his 2013 conviction for sexual assault in Italy, the Brazilian high court decided that Robinho, a former player for Manchester City, will spend a nine-year prison term in Brazil.
He was given a nine-year term after being found guilty of raping a lady in a Milan nightclub along with five other people.
The forty-year-old has lost two attempts to get his conviction overturned and has denied any wrongdoing.
Given that he was based in Brazil and that country does not extradite its people, there was a chance he would not serve out his sentence.
He will now serve his term in his native country, though, as judges on Brazil’s Superior Court of Justice ruled 9–2 on Wednesday to uphold the verdict.
Robinho has the option to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court of Brazil.
