Dani Alves Set To Face Trial For R*pe

Brazilian defender, Dani Alves is set to be tried on s*xual assault charges in Spain.

The high court of Catalonia recently revealed this to AFP, and fans have been reacting.

According to the court, a date for the trial had not yet been set, and the 40-year-old Brazilian will continue to be held in custody without bail while the court investigates.

During his very successful football career, Alves won 42 football titles, including three Champions Leagues with Barcelona and two Copa Americas with Brazil.

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Daniel Alves da Silva, known simply as Dani Alves is a Brazilian professional footballer who last played as a right-back for Liga MX club UNAM and the Brazil national team. Widely considered one of the greatest full-backs of all time, Alves is tied with Lionel Messi as the most decorated player in the history of professional football with 43 senior titles.

Starting his career at Bahia in 2001, Alves went on to have a successful six-year spell with Sevilla, winning two UEFA Cups and the Copa del Rey. He joined Barcelona for €32.5 million, becoming the third-most expensive defender of all-time at the time. He won the treble in his first season with the club and in the next season, won the Supercopa de España, UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup. Additionally, he helped the club to clinch another two Supercopa de España, five La Liga titles and two UEFA Champions League titles in the years that followed.

Alves was born in Juazeiro, a city in the Brazilian state of Bahia, to father Domingos Alves da Silva, a farmer. He played football with the neighboring kids. Alves’ father had a passion for football as well, and eventually managed to organize his own football team. Alves, at age 6, started as a winger, but because of the lack of goals he scored, his father re-positioned him as a right back, a position he still plays up to this day. Alves worked as a farmer and a trader in his youth.