<p>The former goalkeeper of Brazil's most popular soccer team went on trial on Monday (November 19) on charges of having kidnapped and ordered the murder of his ex-girlfriend.</p><br /><p>The case that transfixed the soccer-crazed country in 2010 involves Flamengo's ex-keeper Bruno Souza and a friend who have been accused of killing 25-year-old Eliza Samudio.</p><br /><p>Samudio had filed a police complaint against Souza months before her disappearance, saying that she had been kidnapped, beaten up and forced to take medicine that would induce the abortion of his baby.</p><br /><p>Investigators believe Souza tricked Samudio into thinking that he would assume the paternity and ordered his friend to murder her once they reached his vacation home.</p><br /><p>Souza's ex-wife will also be tried for helping kidnap Samudio.</p>
