Former Brazil international Robinho, currently serving a nine-year prison sentence in São Paulo, has found a new role inside the penitentiary as a coach.

According to CNN Brasil, the ex-AC Milan and Real Madrid forward is managing a team in the prison’s internal football tournament.

His reputation as a former star has quickly spread among inmates, with reports stating that fellow prisoners often seek him out for photos, autographs, and personal meetings.

Robinho, now 40, will be close to 50 by the time his sentence concludes.

Recall, He was convicted in 2017, alongside five others, for involvement in a rape case that took place at a Milan nightclub in 2013. While Robinho has maintained that the act was consensual, Italian courts sentenced him to nine years in prison.

Due to Brazil’s policy of not extraditing its citizens, the sentence is being served in his home country after Italy requested a transfer.

For now, Robinho’s playing days are long behind him, but his presence on the touchline within prison walls has given him a different kind of spotlight one far from the glory of his footballing past.