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Former football star Robinho must serve his nine-year prison sentence for rape in Brazil, a Brazilian high court ruled on Wednesday. The ex-AC Milan winger was sentenced by an Italian court in 2017 to nine years in jail for taking part in the 2013 gang rape of a woman in a Milan nightclub. Robinho, who won the Copa America in 2007 with Brazil, denies the accusations. Italy had sought to have Robinho’s sentence ratified in Brazil so that he would serve his term in his home nation, as Brazil does not extradite its nationals. Even President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had recently spoken out in fav…

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