The Brazilian star Ronaldinho was not the first sports star to enter the prison, and he will not be the last of them. Many stars have committed the mistakes they were tried, including some who were absent behind bars.

Ronaldinho was recently imprisoned in Paraguay with his brother, after being arrested for accusing him of entering the country with a false passport, exposing him to stay behind bars for six months.

Paulo Rossi
He is one of the leading scorer of Italian and European football, but in 1980 he was 24 years old, he was involved in a bookmaking case, in which Milan and some companies were also involved.

He accused Rossi of manipulating his team's results in 1979, and was sentenced to three years imprisonment and suspension, then commuted to two years, and his insistence on denying the charges attributed to him was unsuccessful.

Strangely enough, Juventus signed him in prison in 1981 for six hundred thousand dollars, and in April 1982 Rossi left prison and contributed to crowning Juventus with the league title by participating in the last three games.

Rossi was summoned to the Italian team participating in the 1982 World Cup in Spain, and remarkably sparkled, to lead his country to the title, and he wins the top scorer award and the best player in the tournament.

Mike Tyson
The former heavyweight champion in boxing entered prison in 1991, at the height of his brilliance, for raping Miss Black Rhode Island Desire Washington (18 years) at the Indiana Police Hotel in America, and it was said that it was a fabricated case for revenge.

Tyson was sentenced to six years in prison, but he was released after only three years, after a major transformation in his life by converting to Islam, by some of his colleagues in prison and changing his name to Tyson owner.

Rene Higuita
The former Colombia soccer goalkeeper was one of the most famous guards in the 1980s for his distinguished challenges, acrobatic movements, and scoring many goals, but what some people do not know is that he entered prison seven months, after being convicted of a kidnapping case in his country.

In 1993, he took the role of mediator in receiving the daughter of a drug lord in Colombia, where he took over the girl from the kidnappers after he gave them a large ransom in exchange for 64 thousand dollars from the drug dealer.

But he was convicted because Colombian law criminalized financially benefiting in any way from kidnappings, so he was arrested and punished with seven months' imprisonment.

Oscar Pistorius
South African Pistorius - an amputee athlete - was the first female athlete to compete in the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and was arrested in 2014 on charges of killing his girlfriend Riva Stenkamp, ​​by firing four shots at her from behind the bathroom in 2013.

The Paralympic hero claimed that he had killed her in the belief that he was a thief who had infiltrated his home, but the court was not convinced of his defense and sentenced him to five years in prison, and the South African Supreme Court of Appeal decided to raise her to 15 years, justifying that the first sentence was too short.

Bruno Fernandez
The former Flamingo soccer goalkeeper was imprisoned for his conviction for the murder of his model superstar Elisa Samudio in 2013, in retaliation for having demanded payment of her paternity for her after she gave birth to a child she said was his son.

In a case that caused shock in Brazil, Fernandez admitted to the judge that his friends strangled Samudio and cut her body and gave parts of it as food for dogs.

The guard was sentenced to 22 years in prison, but he left early this year, after spending enough time to qualify for the partial release, and was allowed to travel 160 km from Virginia (southern Brazil), where he spent most of his sentence, to his new club in Bucos de Caldas who Join him after leaving prison.