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Italian prosecutors demand the extradition of Robinho to serve a nine-year prison sentence for rape with ex-AC Milan, Man City and Real Madrid star potentially subject to an arrest warrant if he leaves his native Brazil

Italian prosecutors have requested an international arrest warrant for the Brazilian former footballer Robinho after he was convicted of rape.

Officials have asked the Brazilian authorities to extradite the former Real Madrid, Manchester City and AC Milan forward, 38, so he can serve a nine-year jail term.

In 2017, Robinho and five other Brazilians were found guilty of the gang rape of a 22-year-old Albanian woman in a Milan nightclub four years earlier.

In January, the Supreme Court in Rome dismissed Robinho's final appeal against his conviction.

Now, Italian prosecutors have asked their counterparts in Brazil to hand him over so he can serve his prison sentence.