http://www1.skysports.com/FIFA-World-Cup-2014/news/12027/9310900/world-cup-brazil-coach-luiz-felipe-scolari-under-investigation

 

 

Portuguese authorities have revealed Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari is the subject of a criminal investigation.

Officials have refused to confirm what the investigation relates to, with the matter falling under the country's judicial secrecy law.

Reports in Brazil and the Netherlands have claimed Scolari is suspected of tax evasion but he has denied any wrongdoing.

"I have correctly filed all my tax returns in all the countries where I have worked and I have always declared my income," he said.

"If anything is wrong, it is not my fault. I hope justice gets to the bottom of the facts."

Scolari was head coach of Portugal from 2003-2008 and guided his native Brazil to World Cup glory in the Far East over Germany at the 2002 tournament.

The 65-year-old began his second spell in the role in 2012 and will lead Brazil when they host this year's World Cup.

Brazil play Croatia in the opening match of the tournament in Sao Paulo on 12 June.

More tax evasion cases? Good lord. 
Portugal had better hope they don't end up against Brazil in the knock-outs.

He should be, for leaving Ronaldinho out of his WC squad!

A WC in Brazil without the magician makes me die a little inside.

I wonder if he'll just look at the prosecutor, shrug his shoulders and go "Pfttt" which was his default answer to hard questions from Journo's in the premier league...Poor old Big Phil...

 

Free the Gene Hackman one...!

He should be, for leaving Ronaldinho out of his WC squad!

A WC in Brazil without the magician makes me die a little inside.

 

Where are the next Ronaldinho type players these days ? these days it's all about close control strikers who can dribble past defenders. Suarez, Messi, Costa, Cavanni, Aguero. I like a good mix of everything, the big strong striker ( like Drogba ) the magician ( like Ronaldinho ) the perfect finisher ( like Shevchenko ) the all rounder ( like Henry ) the clinical penalty are finisher ( like Van Nistelrooy )

Didn't know Ronaldinho was even still playing.

I knew he was good pals with Harry Redknapp but didnt know to this extent!

He should be, for leaving Ronaldinho out of his WC squad!

A WC in Brazil without the magician makes me die a little inside.

 

 

You clearly do not follow Brazilian football for wanting that scum in the brazilian squad. 

 

Sorry for calling your idol a scum, but to us Grêmio supporters, he is, for he betrayed Grêmio TWICE.How would you feel if a player betrayed Chelsea TWICE?

 

But anyway, the reasons to leaving him out of the squad are unrelated to what he did to Grêmio, but simply to the fact that he has retired from football some 5 years ago and only pretends he still plays it.

 

Last year he did well with Atlético Mineiro mainly because of Bernard. Since Bernard left the club to Shaktar Donetsk, Ronaldinho´s form has decayed even more. He is only AVERAGE in Brazil (which is a league weaker than the main ones in Europe), but he earns salaries that are way above the average for Brazil and impossibly high for the rest of South America (where top salaries are 10x smaller than in Brazil) even though Ronaldinho sucked at this year´s Libertadores.

 

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edit: if you are curious, Ronaldinho, who started on Grêmio youth levels (his father worked at Grêmio and his brother Assis played at Grêmio), was already a superstar in Brazil when he needed to renovate his contract with Grêmio.

 

european teams were offering like 30-40 million dollars for Ronaldinho. Ronaldinho told IN BROADCASTED INTERVIEWS that Grêmio did not need to hurry with the renovation impasse, because it would all be solved and he would play at Grêmio even for free.

 

a few days later, Ronaldinho took a plane to Paris, and signed with PSG. He had already signed, HIDDEN, a pre-contract with PSG. Grêmio did not get a SINGLE CENT for the best player to appear on the club since the early 80s.

 

if that would hurt the finances of a club like Chelsea, imagine for a brazilian club.

 

Grêmio had to fight for 3 years on FIFA courts until FIFA made PSG pay meager $4 million for Ronaldinho. 

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Fast forward to 2006. Internacional, the Porto Alegre arch-rivals of Grêmio, won their first Libertadores (Grêmio had won in 83 and 95) and were going to play for the World Title against Ronaldinho´s Barcelona. Grêmio had won the World Title in 83 against Hamburg. Inter winning it was a disaster for Grêmio fans. True, Barça lost it for other reasons (Gudjohnsen at the attack!) and Ronaldinho did not play well... but still, that hurt Grêmio fans.

 

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fast forward again to the end of 2010. Ronaldinho will leave Milan and return to Brazil. He and his brother (and career manager) Assis talk with Grêmio´s president, and say Ronaldinho is interested in returning to Grêmio. They even shake hands. The president reveals the news and Grêmio fans, although suspicious, start liking the idea. The prodigal son to his home returns!

 

Grêmio secures investors to pay a $1 million per month salary. Ronaldinho is interviewed and again says he WANTS to go back to Grêmio.

 

But suddenly, news start coming from São Paulo that Ronaldinho is also dealing with Palmeiras. Then news from Rio de Janeiro that Ronaldinho is dealing with Flamengo.

 

The president of Grêmio answers reporters that they had already closed the deal with Ronaldinho after they had dealt again with Assis, who had asked for more stuff, and Grêmio accepted the new terms.

 

Then a few days later, Assis AGAIN returns to Grêmio with new terms, to which Grêmio AGAIN accepts.

 

Soon, we discover that Ronaldinho and his brother are involved in a PUBLIC AUCTION!!

 

They are secretly dealing with the 3 clubs. To each one they accept their terms, just to go to the other club, present the other club´s terms as their own demands, and as soon as that clubs accepts it, they go to the next club and ask even more.

 

Rio media says Ronaldinho signed with Flamengo.

 

Grêmio and Palmeiras are infuriated with it all and say they won´t negotiate with Ronaldinho anymore. Ronaldinho goes to TV to public announce he signed with Flamengo.

 

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fast forward to october 2011

 

Ronaldinho will play for the first time against Grêmio, for Flamengo, at Grêmio´s old Estádio Olímpico.

 

check out the booing when the announcer prepares to say Ronaldinho´s name (he in fact says it but we can´t even hear it!). Followed by the entire stadium chanting PILANTRA! (Crook)

Edited May 16, 201412 yr by AcesHigh

Didn't know Ronaldinho was even still playing.

 

He isn´t. Well, he is still earning money for playing. But certainly he is not playing enough for what he is earning. And compared to what he once was, he really is not playing anymore.

It's a shame your club lost out on some money, but that doesn't really change my opinion of him at all, and i'm guessing most people aside from Gremio fans love Ronaldinho, I even saw a clip of another player bowing to him last year when they shook hands pre-game.

It's a shame your club lost out on some money, but that doesn't really change my opinion of him at all, and i'm guessing most people aside from Gremio fans love Ronaldinho, I even saw a clip of another player bowing to him last year when they shook hands pre-game.

 

Well, of course, most of them do not even know about that. And even if they knew it... do other players hate Van Persie (Arsenal to ManU), Torres (Liverpool to Chelsea), Neuer (Schalke to Bayern), Götze (Borussia to Bayern), Ibrahimovic (Inter to AC Milan), Tevez (United to City), etc? (just mentioned some recent cases, but there were bigger ones in the past, like Baggio from Fiorentina to Juventus, or Figo (Barcelona to Madrid)

 

 

And notice that fans from those big european clubs hate their those players even though the clubs made millions in the transfer!

 

Ronaldinho stabbed us in the back, fans AND the club, by signing a SECRET contract while he was actively telling the club to not worry with the contract renovation, because he loved the club and would pay for free.

 

And then again, when returning to the country.

 

Really, what would you think of let´s say, Drogba, if he had left for Tottenham?

 

Or if Chelsea youth categories suddenly produced a player with potential to be the best in the world, and then in his contract renovation, he complicated things and did not sign, but saying for the club and the fans to not worry, he would play for free with Chelsea, and next week you turn on the TV and he is signing with Bayern Munchen without Chelsea getting a SINGLE PENNY for him?

Isn't that similar to what Neymar did to Santos where most of the transfer money went to his dad and the club got very little? It seems like theres always dodgy 3rd party and transfer agreements in South America, I don't agree with it but I think you can't compare it to a situation like that happening here where it's all way more regulated.

Also it sounds pretty similar to what Lewandowski is doing to Dortmund? Although I guess he isn't lying about it.

 

 

Also it sounds pretty similar to what Lewandowski is doing to Dortmund? Although I guess he isn't lying about it.

 

What Dortmund and Bayern did with both Gotze and Lewandowski was they decided to wait to complete the deal until the summer, when their contracts were up. This meant that they were free transfers. I don't know whether to call that shady or just plain Bayern being cheap skates (they certainly don't lack the money).

Isn't that similar to what Neymar did to Santos where most of the transfer money went to his dad and the club got very little?

 

Well, the very little Santos got was not little. 

 

Grêmio did not get a single penny/cent for Ronaldinho.