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Real Madrid
vs Barcelona: Dani Alves looking to stop Ronaldo
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Real Madrid forward
Cristiano Ronaldo wants to leave the club and Spain after being accused of
committing tax fraud in the country, a report in Portuguese sports daily A Bola
said on Friday.
Reuters
report continues:
The
newspaper said its story was based on a reliable source and that the
32-year-old four-times world player of the year had already made up his mind to
ask the club for a transfer.
It
said that Ronaldo was "deeply disenchanted" with the allegations
against him.
Spanish
prosecutors have filed a lawsuit against the player accusing him of defrauding
tax authorities of €14.7 million (US$16.5 million) by hiding his image rights
income between 2011 and 2014. Ronaldo has denied any wrongdoing.
Real
Madrid said on Thursday that they were confident the Portuguese forward had
acted legally. They could not immediately be reached on Friday to comment on
the report.
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Cristiano
Ronaldo Real Madrid La Liga Ballon d'Or
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Ronaldo
led Real Madrid to their 12th European Cup earlier this month after scoring two
goals in a 4-1 victory over Juventus in the Champions League final, becoming
the tournament's top scorer.
Ronaldo,
Portugal's all-time leading scorer, is the latest in a long line of soccer
players in Spain -- among them Barcelona's Lionel Messi and Neymar -- to be
caught up in cases over tax or transfers.
Ronaldo
has completed eight seasons at Real Madrid since joining them from Manchester
United in 2009 for a then world record fee of 96 million euros
During
that time, they have won the Champions League three times and La Liga twice. In
November, he agreed to extend his contract until 2021.
He is currently at the
Confederations Cup in Russia with the Portuguese national team.
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