Former Brazil and Barcelona Dani Alves Defender has won his appeal against a conviction of sexual violence when a Spanish court destroyed the ruling on Friday.
The 40-year-old former right back was found guilty of attacking a woman in a nightclub in Barcelona on New Year's Eve in 2022 in February 2024 and was sentenced to four years, six months in prison. He denied misconduct during the three -day process.
In March 2024 he was released from prison awaiting his appeal to hear by a higher court.
That court ruled on Friday that there was “insufficient evidence” to exclude the suspicion of Alves of innocence.
Alves won dozens of titles with elite clubs, including Barcelona, Juventus and Paris Saint-Germain.
He also helped Brazil to win two Copa Americas and an Olympic gold medal at the age of 38. He played on his third world cup, the only big title he did not win, in 2022.
He was at the Mexican club Pumas when he was arrested. Pumas immediately ended his contract.
The Alves case was the first controversial sexual crime, since Spain overhauled its legislation in 2022 to give permission, or the defect thereof, centrally in defining a sex crime in response to a Upswell of protests after a gang-richness shop during the San Fermin Bull-Running Festival in Pamplona in Pamplona.
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