Brazilian goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes de Souza has signed a brand new deal on the age of 38.
The former star has develop into identified worldwide after ordering the torture and homicide of his ex-girlfriend Eliza Samudio in 2010.
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In January this yr the star gloveman was granted parole after confessing to his function within the homicide of the 25-year-old mannequin. He was sentenced to 22 years in jail in 2013.
Orion Futebol Clube in Sao Paulo pounced on the alternative to signal the previous star keeper who beforehand performed for Atletico Mineiro, Corinthians and Flamengo.
The signing was introduced on social media on Wednesday after they posted an image of the goalkeeper with a raised clenched fist.
The membership, which can compete within the Super Copa Pioneer this yr, wrote: “Backup for the place, welcome!”
After being granted habeas corpus in 2017, Bruno has since signed offers to play for seven groups.
Bruno’s signing brought about a stir.Source: Supplied
His jail sentence was semi-open from July 2019, the semi-open regime permits prisoners to work exterior the jail through the day earlier than they return every night time.
Officials at Varginha Prison then allowed Bruno to sleep at his residence, the place he was ordered to remain between the hours of 8pm and 6am each night time.
The pair met in 2009 when Samudio fell pregnant. Bruno is claimed to have demanded she have an abortion however she went forward and gave beginning in 2010.
She disappeared in 2010 shortly after she had approached police claiming she had been held captive by Bruno and his associates, who compelled her to take an unlawful abortion drug.
Bruno allegedly put a gun to her head and informed her: ‘You don’t know who I’m or what I’m able to – I’m from the favela.’
After preventing for monetary assist from the goalkeeper, he conspired with buddies to have her kidnapped and held in a shed in Belo Horizonte, the place she was tortured and strangled to demise.
On Bruno’s orders, the assailants then disposed of Samudio’s physique by feeding her to his canines.
Eliza Samudio in 2009. AFP PHOTOSource: AFPBruno Fernandes de Souza exterior court docket in 2010.Source: Supplied
“This is a barbaric crime,” former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff stated in 2010, based on The Guardian, following Bruno’s arrest. “The complete of Brazil is disgusted by such a barbaric and perverse crime.”
Bruno first signed a two-year cope with Boa Esporte in 2017 in a transfer that struck a nerve with Brazilian followers and girls’s rights teams, who seen the leniency provided a soccer star as a disturbing signal of the nation’s misogynistic tradition.
“We protest each towards this contract and towards the willingness of the group and its sponsors to have their photographs linked to feminicide,” one Brazilian group, the Popular Feminist Front of Varghina, wrote in a press release on Facebook.
“A lady-killer should not be allowed a life acclaimed by the media. Bruno is not only a goalkeeper; his notoriety displays the convenience with which a girl’s life is forgotten within the pursuits of a sporting profession.”
Three sponsors reportedly pulled their assist of Boa Esporte after the announcement was made.
Ironically, Brazilian group Cruzeiro had its gamers put on specifically designed shirts for final Wednesday’s Brazilian Cup recreation in an effort to lift consciousness of the injustices going through ladies on International Women’s Day. Some learn “A rape each 11 minutes” and others “Salaries 30% decrease.”
– with the NY Post.
