Eight Footballers that Went to Prison!
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eight footballers that have been to prison. Is it really true that Arnold has been to prison in this video, we're going to look at eight great players that have been to prison. So without further ado, let's jump right to this video. Number one Adam johnson, Adam johnson is now mostly known as a meme and not a footballer. He was arrested for having an affair with a 15 year old girl. He was released from prison each 34 after serving half of a six year sentence since the incident, he has never played professional football again and he ruined what could have been a good career with Manchester City and England. Number two Tony Adams, Tony Adams was one of the best center backs of his generation despite his alcohol problems, he managed to play 19 full seasons with Arsenal, becoming one of Arsenal's longest serving players. He was sentenced to four months in prison in 1990 but got an early release. Two months after he later was arrested for crashing into a wall near his house and was later tested for his alcohol level. He was found to be 27 times over the legal alcohol limit. Number three George, Best George spaces for sure. One of Manchester United's best players of all time despite his controversies off the pitch, he was great but could have been greater. In 1984 football star was convicted of drunk driving, assaulting a police officer and failing to answer bail. He was given three months in jail which forced him to celebrate christmas in ford open prison number four Ian Wright, one of the Premier League's greatest ever players and also a great guy actually had to spend time in prison when he was only 19 years old. The arsenal legend refused to pay taxes and insurance on the two cars he had and was then convicted with two weeks in prison at counts for prison in 1982 Ian Wright has later told the media how important this was in his life and how it changed him for the better. Number five rene Higuita Higuita is well known across the globe. First in ST scorpion kick save versus England in 1995 not many known that the goalkeeper found himself in some shady business in the nineties. The Colombian was imprisoned for being involved in a kidnapping that involved famous drug lord Pablo escobar chiquita's job was just to deliver some money but that was enough to give him seven months behind the bars at the prison in bogota. Number six Bruno Fernandez de Sosa a Brazilian serie a winner with Flamengo Bruno Fernandez committed one of the worst crimes a man possibly can do in july 2010, he was formally charged with murder, kidnapping, hiding a body forming a criminal gang and corrupting minors. He later confessed to having organized the plot and on March 8 2013, the court sentenced him to 22 year jail term for the assault, torture and murder of his former murder and mother of his youngest child, disgusting Number seven Benjamin Mendy. Benjamin Mendy is a multiple Premier League winner with Manchester City and even though he has not been incredible at the left back position, he has a lot of trophies to look back on. He was accused of seven charges of rape and sexual assault. In 2021 the Frenchman was sentenced to spend time at hmp out course in Liverpool but because of fear of his safety, he was moved to top security prison in Manchester. He got out on bail later on his three conditions and will stand trial for his charges. In late January 2022, the France International has since been suspended by Manchester city Number eight Ronaldinho. Ronaldinho truly is one of the greatest players in history and maybe the biggest showman of all time. But did you know he actually served some time in prison In 2020 he found himself in the middle of a fake passport controversy and had to spend five months in prison. He was found guilty of forging passport documents while traveling to Paraguay with his brother in 2020. Then both were sentenced to five years in prison. However, the pair was offered a plea deal that would reduce their sentence from five years to five months. They had to pay a combined fine of $200,000 and still had to serve some time in a sunshine prison. Bernardino actually celebrated his 40th birthday inside the prison grounds, we have now reached the end of our video, as you have now seen many of football's biggest stars have actually done criminal stuff that they had to pay for. It's important to understand that some of these are personal mistakes and that sometimes something good can come of such a punishment and a sport full of cocky and arrogant players, stuff like this will unfortunately happen. And that concludes our video. Did any of these surprise you comment down below? We post videos weekly about footballer's life outside the pitch. So if you like the video, please don't forget to like and subscribe if we found a video entertaining. Thank you very much for watching our video.