Ronaldinho in full game in the Specialized Group. Photo: capture.
The Brazilian star Ronaldinho Gaúcho recalled his stay in the Specialized Group. He gave details of the first days and the anecdotes left by the remembered tournament that he played.
Dinho and his brother Roberto arrived in the country on March 4, 2020 after leaving Sao Paulo with Brazilian documentation.although in Migrations of the Silvio Pettirossi airport they exhibited Paraguayan passports and IDs with their names and photos, which were later discovered to have been doctored.
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Consequently, On March 7, Judge Clara Ruiz Díaz ordered the brothers to be imprisoned in the police jail. They were arrested that same night.
And the news spread like wildfire.
The ex-soccer player lent himself to a free medical assistance project for Paraguayan children organized by a foundation chaired by businesswoman Dalia López, that is found fugitive ever since and under international arrest warrant.
“I thought they were going to beat me and do all the terrible things they usually do in jail,” said the former player. in an interview with English journalist Frand Khalid.
But the reality was very different, there was no violence, his presence was quite an event. “They called the guards to bring a soccer ball so I can do some tricks and entertain them.” continued.
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The ex Barcelona, PSG, Milan and Flamengo, among others, revealed some other detail about the tournament that took place in the Group. “The next morning they took us to play a 5 vs. 5, guards and some prison inmates. The officials came out to watch the game with the cameras on, we all had a great day.” mentioned.
Despite the bad time, and what such a situation means, andThe former player had no complaints about the Paraguayan attention. “I can say that my time there was good,” he settled.
Ronaldinho and his brother were detained in Asunción for 171 days, at the height of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The ruling of the guarantee judge Gustavo Amarilla, which benefited them with the conditional suspension of the process, put an end to the six-month legal mess.
The brothers also paid a fine of about $200,000 as “social reparation.” to terminate their processes, an amount that was allocated to the purchase of medical supplies and equipment to combat COVID-19 in Paraguay.
The amount was extracted from the 1.6 million dollars that they paid in April as bail to access home confinement in a hotel in downtown Asunción.
The accusations of Ronaldinho and his brother also resulted in prosecutions of about twenty people, among them managers and officials of Migrations and the National Police Identification Directorate allegedly linked to an illegal business of document manipulation.
The procedural exit forced Roberto de Assis, who was sentenced to two years in prison, to appear every four months before the judicial authorities of Brazil.
