"?Former footballers have a range of options available to them when they finally call time on their playing careers.
From management to coaching and punditry to more obscure careers, the options are fairly limitless.
For former Borussia Mönchengladbach player Marcelo Pletsch, however, none of those choices were particularly appealing.
Former Monchengladbach player Marcelo Pletsch has been arrested after police caught him smuggling 793kg of weed in Brazil! pic.twitter.com/W9ZeTDXA20
So the ex-defender decided to try his hand at drug smuggling - yes, you read that right - and, not surprisingly, ended up getting busted by police after trying to traffic an absolute tonne of marijuana into his home country of Brazil.
Almost 800kg of the stuff was uncovered by law enforcers in the roof of a truck that was being driven by the 40-year-old, and Pletsch is now facing a jail sentence of 15-years for his illegal activity.
Family and friends have allegedly expressed the shock at Pletsch's criminal occupation, which isn't surprising when you take into account that he told them he was a mere pig farmer.
Brazilian defender Marcelo Pletsch, considered as an idol at Borussia Mönchengladbach, was arrested with 793kg of marijuana in Paraná.
Pletsch, who also owns a German passport thanks to dual citizenship acquired from his time in the Bundesliga, has already been shipped off the the notoriously violent Cascavel state prison, where a number of inmates were brutally beheaded back in 2014.
Heed the lesson, kids: don't take drugs. Or smuggle them after you end your football playing career.
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