Court sentences popular footballer, Dani Alves, to 4 years imprisonment A Spanish court on Thursday sentenced former Brazil international Dani Alves to four and a half years in prison after finding him guilty of raping a young woman at a Barcelona nightclub in December 2022. “The victim did not consent and there is evidence that, beyond the complainant’s testimony, permits the rape to be considered proven,” the Barcelona court wrote in a statement. Prosecutors had called for a nine-year jail sentence for the three-time Champions League winner followed by ten years of probation. One of...