Brazil football hero Falcao quits job after ‘rubbing his crotch against hotel worker’
BRAZILIAN football hero Falcao has quit his job amid claims he sexually assaulted a woman.
Falcao, 69 — a star of the midfield at the 1982 World Cup — is claimed to have rubbed his crotch against a hotel worker.
She is said to have told police there was at least one witness and the incident was on CCTV.
A specialist sex crimes police unit are investigating the allegations.
The star — full name Paulo Roberto Falcao — denies wrongdoing but quit as sporting director at Brazilian side Santos.
As a leading defensive midfielder, Falcao made his name at Internacional before moving to Italian side Roma in 1980.
He won 34 caps for Brazil.
At the peak of his career, Falcao was one of the Brazil national team’s greatest stars playing against English contemporaries like Kevin Kegan and Glenn Hoddle.
He played at a club level for Internacional, Roma, and Sao Paulo and was once the world’s highest-paid player.
He was later manager of the Brazil national side and had three separate stints in charge of Internacional before taking the Santos sporting coordinator job in November.