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[SteelBird]

Cristiano Ronaldo, a Portugal football star, accepts 2 years in prison sentence and $21.80 million fine sentence.

Spanish newspaper

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that football star Cristiano Ronaldo has accepted a suspended prison sentence and a fine of €18.8 million (approximately $21.8 million) to settle a tax fraud case in Spain.

The Real Madrid and Portugal icon, who will take on Spain in his country’s first World Cup 2018 tie later today, was accused by Spanish prosecutors of defrauding tax authorities of €14.7 million (approximately $17 million).

Ronaldo denied the accusation when the Spanish prosecutor’s office filed its lawsuit against him in June last year. Now, El Mundo’s report states that he has reached a settlement with the authorities. Ronaldo will avoid time in prison, however, as Spanish law states that short sentences are served under probation for first offenses.

Argentina and Barcelona star Lionel Messi — the other giant of the modern game —

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with the Spanish authorities alongside his father in 2016.

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[Janiz]

New Cristiano Ronaldo, a Portugal football star, accepts 2 years in prison sentence and $21.80 million fine sentence.

Well, his off the pitch problems doesn't seem to affect his play as he scored three goals against Spain yesterday

 

[Quickie]

Seeing their recent form, I've been expecting Su Bingtian to improve his personal best and Xie Zhenye to go under 10 secs. Didn't expect that to happen within 3 days though, lol. In the same race with Su, Italian Usain Bolt, Tortu, came in second going under 10 secs for the first time, a new national record of 9.99.

 

[timepass]

A group of Pakistani friends went to Russia for the FIFA World Cup 2018....

 

[SteelBird]

Watching WorldCup now to see if the ex-World Cup owner chooses to stay or go home!

 

[SteelBird]

Now, at 80' and the score is still 0 - 0 while Sweden gets 3 - 0 against Mexico, I think Germany is about to pack their luggage and GO HOME!

 

[Dolcevita]

Now, at 80' and the score is still 0 - 0 while Sweden gets 3 - 0 against Mexico, I think Germany is about to pack their luggage and GO HOME!

Congratulations. South Korea.

Historic win for South Korea
Worst World Cup for Germany.

 

[texx1]

The champions curse is real.

France in 2002
Italy in 2010
Spain in 2014
Germany in 2018

So far only Brazil is immune. It got into the quarter finals in 2006.

 

[Quickie]

4 years is a long time. By the time of the next World Cup, some of the key older players has gone into retirement The Champions team playing isn't exactly the same team that won the cup.

 

[B.I.B.]

My father who has been to 5 World Cups if you to go to what's the next round of matches.
He also thinks in some of the matches the noise is much more boisterous and louder than what the smaller crowd would make. So he is wondering if the crowd noise has been boosted during broadcasting