Robinho's Life and Career Journey in Football "talent and continued to guide the little boy to further develop"

Robson de Souza, also known as Robinho, was born on January 25, 1984 in Sao Vicente, Sao Paulo, Brazil. He was born to the couple Marina da Silva Souza and Gilvan de Souza. Robinho was born from a poor family. The environment he lives in is classified as an area where most of his citizens have a low income.

Robinho's father works as a salesperson. While his mother is a worker in a catering business. Robinho is very close to his parents. The father continues to support and always give advice. So is his mother.

Little Robinho has shown interest in football. Among all his friends, Robinho is the most superior boy. When playing for a futsal team, Robinho was able to score 73 goals in one season.

Although small, Robinho did not hesitate to run and outwit opponents. His final settlement as a child was somewhat special. At the age of 15, Robinho attracted the attention of football legend, Pele. Since he first met, Pele was impressed with Robinho's talent and continued to guide the little boy to further develop.

Join Santos ...

Until exactly the age of 18 years, Robinho officially signed a contract with Santos thanks to Pele's help.

Making his first debut, 18-year-old Robinho played in the famous Brazilian competition, Campeonato Brasileiro. He continued to play brilliantly and managed to bring his team ranked first.

Since then, Robinho has continued to be in the spotlight. In 2004, many European teams wanted to recruit him but Santos was reluctant to let go of his star player.

Together with Santos, he successfully broken the opponent's goal 47 times in 108 appearances. And won 2 Brazilian league trophies. Extraordinary talent is also known to the Spanish giant, Real Madrid.

Real Madrid recruited ...

Until in the end, the new star of Brazilian football was recruited by Real Madrid in the summer of 2005 at a cost of 24 million euros. At El Real Robinho was given the jersey number 10 which was previously worn by Luis Figo.

In his first season with Real, Robinho scored 14 goals in 37 matches. In the following season Robinho's game was still stable, he even became Man of the match in the El Classico match.

With his contribution, Robinho successfully presented the La Liga title for Los Galacticos in 2007. The title also became the third throughout his career.

The 2007/08 season, Robinho ended with a notch 11 goals and 8 assists in the league, as well as an additional 4 goals in European Champions League competition. However, his career did not go smoothly after suffering an injury. Robinho must rest for a long time.

After returning to play, Robinho was unable to display his best game. When he got a contract extension offer, he actually refused because at that time Madrid was being exposed to the issue of bringing in mega stars from Portugal, Cristiano Ronaldo.

Join Manchester City ...

After deciding not to accept the offer, Robinho flew to England to join Manchester City. In September 2008, this petite player officially set foot in the city of Manchester and signed a contract for the next four years.

Robinho made his first debut against Chelsea on September 13, 2008. He managed to contribute a goal and bring City to win with a score of 3-1. On October 26, 2008, Robinho scored his first hat trick in the Premier League when City managed to quell Stoke city resistance.

The season ended with the title as Manchester City's top scorer with 14 goals scored in 31 appearances in the primary league.

In his second season, Robinho failed to play nicely after returning to injury. Even so, he has performed 12 matches with Manchester City and scored 1 goal

Because the injury never healed, Robinho began to lose his place at Manchester City. When he returned, his appearance tended to be inconsistent. Because of this, in January 2010, Robinho returned to Santos on loan for six months.

After his loan spell is over, Robinho wants to stay at Santos. However, Manchester City refused and forced him to return to England. Because he was half-hearted playing for the Manchester team, Robinho refused to extend the contract.

Although he had participated in The Citizen's pre-season match in 2010, Robinho said if he wanted to move to another club.

AC Milan hooked ....

Knowing the situation of the player, the Italian giant, AC Milan, moved quickly. They made an offer to the City worth 18 million euros or around Rp 288 billion. And on August 31, 2010, Robinho signed a four-year contract with il Rossonero.

His debut with the black and red team bears defeat. However, not long after he successfully scored and brought Milan to win against Chievo with a score of 3-1.

What happened to Robinho in Milan is almost the same as what happened to his first two clubs on the Blue Continent. 2010/2011 season which became his first season in Italy passed sweetly, 14 goals in 34 matches is a good record. In the same season he donated the Serie A trophy and the supercopa trophy.

His first two seasons defended Milan's banner, Robinho often won the coach's trust and played quite well.

After being injured again for the umpteenth time, Robinho ended his contract with AC Milan and decided to return to Santos in 2014.

His adventures after escaping from Milan tend to be irregular. Robinho seemed to lose direction and had several club changes.

After playing for Santos, Robinho anchored in the Bamboo Curtain country. He played at Guanzhao Evergrande in 2015. At his new club, Robinho was re-trained by Brazilian coach Luiz Felipe Scolari.

Robinho couldn't do more despite searching for the club all the way to Asia. 10 matches in the China Super League with a collection of three goals seemed to be the results he was able to achieve.

At the end of 2015 Robinho decided to end his career in the Chinese league and chose to return to Brazil to strengthen Atletico Mineiro. Together with Atletico Mineiro, Robinho returned to find his best performance, notched 38 goals from 109 appearances for two seasons to prove his quality.

At the end of 2017, he was sentenced to 9 years in prison after being involved in a rape case against a 22-year-old Albanian girl. The incident he did in 2013. After making an appeal and negotiations, Robinho reportedly free from the case.

Now, Robinho has been a Basaksehir player in the Turkish league since January 2019 after being transferred from Sivasspor.

Personal life…

In personal life. In 2009, Robinho married a beautiful woman named Vivian Guglielminetti, the fruit of his love, Robinho was awarded two children named Robson Jr. and Gianluca.

Careers in the National Team ...

Together with the Brazilian national team, Robinho made his debut on July 13, 2003 at the Concacaf Gold Cup tournament, When against Mexico. But at that time the Brazilian team lowered the u-23 team squad. While his first goal for Brazil occurred when facing Paraguay in the 2006 World Cup qualifiers.

Together with the samba team, Robinho has been trained in various prestigious events such as the Copa America, Confederations Cup and World Cup. His best achievement, of course, when he brought Samba Brazil won the 2007 Copa America. At the event he was named the best player.

Now he rarely gets the Brazilian national team call. Playing for Brazil he has scored 28 goals in 100 matches.