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Re: Disgraced Ex Brazil & Barcelona Star Dani Alves Found GUILTY of RAPE
Disgraced Ex Brazil & Barcelona Star Dani Alves GUILTY of Sexual Assault. Alves Was Handed Four-and-a-Half Year Jail Sentence
Ex-Barcelona star Dani Alves jailed for nightclub rape but sentence HALF what lawyer feared..He was found guilty of raping a 23-year-old woman in a Barcelona nightclub
The Guardian 22 FEB 2024
He had admitted to cheating on his wife, Joana Sanz
A Spanish court sentenced the footballer to only four and a half years behind bars..
Barcelona wish they could ERASE from history: Xavi defended him, team-mates and fans loved him... now he's disgraced
Ask any Barcelona supporter prior to December 2022 to name an all-time best XI and Dani Alves would have been as certain to be in the list as Lionel Messi, Andres Iniesta or Xavi.
He was Pep Guardiolas’ first signing when he took over in 2008, and would go on to win 26 trophies with the club, en-route to become the most decorated player in the history of the game anywhere.
Request a best XI now and there will be a nervous pause as an alternative right back is searched for. Alves’ achievements as a footballer remain, but the sadness and repulsion invoked by his crime in the early hours of December 30, 2022 have left people wishing to erase his name from the collective memory.
It wasn’t just that he was an entertainer and a winner on the pitch, Alves won over the club’s supporters with his larger than life personality – whether he was picking a banana up and eating it while staring down the racist who had thrown it on to the pitch during a match in 2014
Offering to donate one of his kidneys to team-mate Eric Abidal when he was struck down by cancer in 2011; or coming back to the club on a minimum wage in 2022 when they were struggling to pay new signings, he represented for them someone who was more than just a very good player.
That image has been shattered as the details have emerged of his behaviour in the early hours of December 30, and by his subsequent conviction for the rape of a 23-year-old women in the toilets of the VIP area of a Barcelona nightclub.
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