"Ex-Barcelona Star Dani Alves Receives 4.5-Year Prison Sentence for Sexual Assault"

Former Barcelona player Dani Alves has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison by Catalonia's top court for sexually assaulting a woman in a Barcelona nightclub in 2022. The court also ordered him to pay €150,000 to the victim. Alves, who had maintained the sex was consensual, had been in preventive pre-trial prison since January 2023. The case was heard over three days, with Alves changing his story multiple times. The 40-year-old, who played for Barcelona, Juventus, and PSG, had his contract terminated by Mexican club Pumas following his arrest.