But Tevez - nicknamed 'The Golfer' - has been punished with 250 hours community service, a £1000 fine and a further-six month driving ban.
Tevez pleaded guilty in Spanish. He has yet to possess a full UK driving licence. And pass the driving theory test which is conducted in English.
We came up with a few suggestions of how Carlos the sinner can repay his local community in the weeks and months ahead.
1. Take a bunch of Manchester City fans up to Scotland for The Open golf championship - where they can watch you caddy.
2. Help out the local tattoo artist with his David Hasselhoff designs.
3. Care in the community. To show there are no hard feelings, pay a visit to your old mate Sir Alex Ferguson and join him at the local one o'clock club for some bingo and weekly tea dance. Dibbers and dabbers ready.
4. Pay a visit to the local park where you can find a lot of rubbish littered around that needs cleaning up.
5. Learn basic English and explain to others how you managed without it when you have been earning your living in England for the best part of a decade. And how did you cope in court?
6. Lend a helping hand at the local dogs' home. Discover how life is for real dogs after claiming to have been treated like one by Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini after being put on "gardening leave" for refusing to play in last season's Champions League. Care for those strays, Carlos.
7. Continue to test out the strength of seats in the Munich area after refusing to get off one during the Champions League. Is German workmanship as good as British?
8. Visit the local prison and explain how best to handle doing some porridge without your basic wants - £198,000 per week plus goal bonus - and being stuck somewhere you don't really want to be.
9. Work for the Manchester tourist board. Travel abroad promoting the city as a tourist destination. Continue to sell the area employing your natural choice of words. “Of course I would buy a house in Marbella. The weather, everything. Manchester has nothing."
10. Once you've mastered English, learn Liam Gallagher's basic Mancunian and get to know the locals. Be 'mad for it' like the former Oasis front man. May take longer than 250 hours.
11. Catch up on a spot of horticulture at Manchester's public parks after being placed on gardening leaving during your time representing City. And make sure those beaches abroad are being occupied.
12. Try to bring divided
communities together. Continue to build on the excellent work already
done on reducing anti-social behaviour. No need to noise up those
neighbours.
13. Follow in the footsteps
of fellow former Manchester United player Eric Cantona by coaching local
school kids at the City training ground. Cantona was handed 120 hours
of community service. Carlos has another 130 to go.
14. Forget the golf for a
minute. Up your quota of hours doing what you are paid to do only having
managed 234 hours in the Premier League since 2006. Less than your 250
community service hours.
15. Or just forget the football coaching, and open your own
golf academy encouraging kids to follow in your footsteps. And give them
the chance to have their photo taken with Angel Cabrera.
While promoting golf leisurewear in court...
16. Or just help out some of the locals who might share your love for arts and crafts. Here's one I made earlier. Have you guessed what it is yet?
While promoting golf leisurewear in court...
16. Or just help out some of the locals who might share your love for arts and crafts. Here's one I made earlier. Have you guessed what it is yet?
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