{"id":9335,"date":"2023-12-20T07:31:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T12:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/dani-alves-trial-set-for-february-2024-for-ex-brazil-and-barcelona-defender\/20\/12\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-12-20T07:31:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T12:31:35","slug":"dani-alves-trial-set-for-february-2024-for-ex-brazil-and-barcelona-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/dani-alves-trial-set-for-february-2024-for-ex-brazil-and-barcelona-defender\/20\/12\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Dani Alves: Trial set for February 2024 for ex-Brazil and Barcelona defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1\">\n<figure class=\"gs-u-mt0 gs-u-mb-alt+ story-body__media story-body__media--figure qa-story-body-media story-body__media--lead\" data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1.$image-0\"><span class=\"gs-u-display-block story-body__media\" data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1.$image-0.0\"><span class=\"gs-u-display-block gs-o-responsive-image\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1.$image-0.0.0\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"gel-brevier gs-u-ph+ gs-u-pv-alt story-body__media__caption story-body__media__caption--image\" data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1.$image-0.1\">Dani Alves played in the team that won six league titles and three Champions Leagues during his time at Barcelona<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p role=\"introduction\" class=\"qa-introduction gel-pica-bold\" data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1\"><span data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1.0\">Former Brazil and Barcelona defender Dani Alves&#8217; trial in Spain for alleged sexual assault has been set for 5-7 February 2024. <\/span><\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2\">\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0\"><span data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0.0\">Alves, 40, has been in prison without bail since he was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/64346267\" class=\"story-body__internal-link\" title=\"\" data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0.$link-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><span data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0.$link-2.0\">arrested in January<\/span><\/a><span data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0.3\"> over an allegation he assaulted a woman in a Barcelona nightclub last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3\"><span data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.0\">He said he had consensual sex with his accuser after initially denying any sexual encounter with her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4\"><span data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.0\">A Spanish prosecutor is seeking a prison term of nine years for Alves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5\"><span data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.0\">The prosecutor has also asked for him to receive a restraining order following the jail term and for him to pay damages worth 150,000 euros (\u00a3130,000) to the woman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6\"><span data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0\">A court in the Barcelona area formally indicted Alves in August and later decided there was enough evidence to send him to trial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7\"><span data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7.0\">Alves, capped 126 times for Brazil, played for his country at the Qatar World Cup in 2022. He had his contract with Mexican club UNAM terminated after his arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8\"><span data-reactid=\".2fgn005v68q.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8.0\">In Spain, a claim of rape is investigated under the general accusation of sexual assault and convictions can lead to prison sentences of between four and 15 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/67773194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dani Alves played in the team that won six league titles and three Champions Leagues during his time at Barcelona Former Brazil<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/dani-alves-trial-set-for-february-2024-for-ex-brazil-and-barcelona-defender\/20\/12\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[3624,986,3623,948,3626,3435,163,3625],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9337,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335\/revisions\/9337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}