Robinho

Robinho is one of the most bittersweet cases in modern football for me — a player so naturally gifted that Pelé himself called him his heir at age twelve, and watching him glide past defenders at Santos in the early 2000s, you genuinely believed the hype. He had that rare first touch that made the ball look magnetic, and his pace with Real Madrid and later Manchester City showed flashes of what could have been a legendary career. The problem is it never quite added up to a legacy that matched the talent: inconsistent form, club-hopping, and ultimately a rape conviction in Italy that makes it impossible to separate the footballer from the man. Whatever joy his skill brought on the pitch, the off-field reality casts a long, ugly shadow that I can't look away from.

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Name (English)

Robinho

Name (Japanese)

ロビーニョ

Reading

ろびーにょ

Born

January 25, 1984 (age 42)

Origin

São Vicente, São Paulo, Brazil

Height

172 cm

Occupation

association football player / futsal player / association football coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rat

• Official sitehttp://robinhooficial.com.br/
• Xhttps://x.com/Robinho
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinho
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A7
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58441

Tags

• São Paulo
• association football player
• futsal player
• association football coach

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.