Brazilian Goalkeeper who ordered the murder of his girlfriend appears in court

Goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes de Souza, 28, is accused of having his model girlfriend, Eliza Samudio killed to avoid paying child support after she gave birth to his love child.

Bruno, who was tipped to play for Brazil in the 2014 World Cup, has always denied knowing what happened to 25-year-old model Ms Samudio, has always claimed Ms Samudio was alive and had left the country. Her body has never been found.

But amid dramatic courtroom scenes at his trial, the footballer wept as he told how his best friend, Luiz Henrique Romao, paid someone to kill her.

He told a jury that while he didn't order her murder, he had accepted it.he told a court in Contagem, southeast Brazil, that his cousin, Jorge Rosa, who had witnessed the murder, had told him what had happened.

He claimed he was told that after kidnapping Ms Samudio, Romao had taken her to a house in Belo Horizonte where hired killer Santos was waiting.

He said: 'There he held her hands and asked (Romao) to tie them in front of her, and put a tie around her neck.
And [Romao] even kicked Eliza’s legs away. That’s what Jorge told me. And that they had chopped up her body, that they had thrown her body for the dogs to eat.'

He added that while he 'was not the one who ordered' the killing, he feels 'guilty' for her death'.

Brunette Ms Samudio, who had previously claimed to have had an affair with Real Madrid ace Cristiano Ronaldo, met Bruno at a ‘footballers’ orgy’ in May 2009 and fell pregnant after Bruno’s condom burst, it is claimed.