Updated On: 18 December, 2025 10:04 AM IST | Mumbai | A Correspondent
Raphinha and Natalia have known each other since 2013 and tied the knot in 2022. They have a three-year-old son, Gael

Raphinha and wife Natalia Rodrigues. Pic/Rodrigues’s Instagram
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They say your partner is always your biggest supporter, and Raphinha’s better half, Natalia Rodrigues, definitely proved that on Tuesday, by posting a stinging rebuttal to FIFA’s decision of omitting the Barcelona star from their Best XI of the year.
According to the British newspaper, The Daily Mail, in a now deleted Instagram story with the image of the 11 players selected in the background, Rodrigues wrote: “Is Raphinha a basketball player? Injustice.”