Dani Alves has spoken out for the first time since leaving prison, claiming he has ‘adjusted’ well to prison and is able to ‘survive’ wherever he goes.
The ashamed footballer, that one has appealed a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence after being found guilty of rape and was released from prison last week.
The 40-year-old paid a €1million (£850,000) bail to be released, and reports say he was funded by a Brazilian magazine in exchange for an interview.
However, Alves has reportedly spoken to Spanish news channel El Periodico about having to attend court every Friday as part of his bail deal.
When asked what life was like on bail, Alves shared El Periodico: ‘This is what I have to do. Every Friday I go to court and that’s it. I don’t have much else to do either.’
Alves was released from prison after appealing against a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence after being found guilty of rape last month
The 40-year-old posted a €1million (£850,000) bail to be released, which reports say was funded by a Brazilian magazine in exchange for an interview
Alves avoided commenting on specific details about his case, but playfully joked about the legal proceedings.
Alves said: ‘The game I have to play is on the field’. He also acknowledged that he has “no idea” how long the legal process could take.
However, Alves is confident he can survive whatever challenges are thrown at him and insists he has what it takes to get through prison.
When asked to comment on his experiences in prison so far – having spent the last fourteen months in prison – Alves said: “Wherever I go, I survive.
‘I adapt to everything, because for me it is not the place that makes the person, but the person that makes the place.’
The interview would have taken place before Alves went to the exclusive Mr. Porter restaurant, located on the ground floor of the Sir Víctor Hotel – according to MD.
According to MD, Alves wore a white T-shirt and loose sweatpants as he sat on the table next to his friend Bruno Brasil.
However, shortly after the reported interview with El Periodico was released, Alves said on Instagram: “It is not true that I granted an interview to any media, and I will not grant one until the legal proceedings are completed.” ‘
The former footballer has returned to his £4.5million villa in the Esplugues de Llobregat area
Dani Alves appears to have reconciled with wife Joana Sanz, 31, (pictured on holiday a few years ago) after being released from prison
Alves, who has appealed against a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence after being found guilty of rape last month, and was released from prison after posting €1 million (£850,000) bail.
Spanish journalist Marisa Martín Blazquez reported during Fiesta (Telecinco) that a Brazilian magazine paid Alves bail in exchange for an interview.
Blazquez said the Alves would have asked his model wife Joana Sanz to be part of the interview.
“The magazine, known in Brazil, does beautiful reports on important people in Brazil, but also internationally,” says Blazquez. ‘There are a number of requirements that must be met.
‘An interview would be conducted as a video report about Alves’ story and Alves would also have asked Joana Sanz to participate in this report.
“(The payment) would have been an advance as payment for that documentary-style interview being conducted.”
Sanz revealed last year that she had filed for divorce after Alves first admitted to having sex with the woman he was found guilty of raping, but claimed, as he still does, that the relationships were consensual.
The 31-year-old brunette later said the divorce had been postponed and that she was giving evidence on behalf of Alves at his trial from February 5 to 7.
Alves has been released provisionally and will usually attend court hearings on Friday.
The former Barcelona player was released from Brian’s 2 prison a week ago after spending 15 months behind bars awaiting trial for raping a woman in December 2022.
The 40-year-old was found guilty in February this year and sentenced to four and a half years in prison, but Alves has appealed the verdict and will do so from his own home after agreeing to do so. to a number of court conditions.
Alves has surrendered both his Spanish and Brazilian passports and will be required to visit court once a week to maintain his freedom, after first paying €1 million (£850,000) bail.
But having done so, the disgraced player was keen to make the most of life outside prison walls and is believed to have celebrated his father’s recent birthday in some way.
According to the Spanish TV program ‘This is Life’, the day after Alves was released, he received his family and friends at his house in Esplugues de Llobregat after they attended a dinner party in Barcelona without him in honor of patriarch Domingos Alves Da Silva .
After dinner, the party headed to Alves’ £4.5 million villa, where the festivities would continue until five in the morning.
The former defender might have been released earlier had he not had problems raising the money to pay his high bail.
Alves’ lawyer Ines Guardiola has said the Brazilian has two bank accounts in Spain, one with no balance and the other with €51,000 (£44,000), with a court attachment of €50,000 (£43,000).
Guardiola claimed last year that her client is ‘devastated’ and has a ‘negative bank balance of £17,000’, despite once reportedly having a fortune of £47 million.
Sport reported that Alves’ accounts in Brazil have also been blocked due to problems with his ex-wife Dinorah Santana.
However, Alves is expected to receive 9.2 million euros after his tax lawyer Fernando Mota won four cases against the Spanish tax authorities.
During the hearing to set Alves’ bail, it was noted that the 40-year-old would receive “a large sum of money” back from the treasury, but he has not yet received the money.
Brazil teammate Neymar’s father was expected to help Alves pay the money to secure his freedom, but he issued a statement denying he would hand over any money after coming under political pressure in his home country to stand.
Memphis Depay’s agent was forced to deny ‘fake’ claims on social media that the Atletico Madrid player had been the one to provide Alves with the money needed to win his temporary freedom on Tuesday.
‘This is fake news. It is false news, it is not true at all,” Sébastien Ledure told Informativos Telecinco.
Ledure also asked for the claim to be “corrected at an official level” after it spread on social media on Monday.
Alves was convicted more than a year and a half ago of raping a 23-year-old woman in the toilet of a chic nightclub in Barcelona, Sutton.
His lawyer Ines Guardiola has previously claimed he is ‘broke’ and has a ‘negative balance’
Alves was found guilty of rape and sentenced to four and a half years in Spanish prison
The prison sentence he received, seen as lenient by some critics, was far less than the nine years prosecutors had sought and the 12 years Alves’ female prosecutor wanted if convicted.
The footballer’s previous attempts to get bail were rejected by the courts, largely because he was seen as a potential combat risk, and the player’s home country, Brazil, does not extradite citizens convicted abroad.
His ex-wife Santana is among those who have spoken out against Alves’ release on bail.
‘There are times when you must share the table with Judas, without taking away your peace. Well, me today,” she wrote on Instagram.
Santana, the mother of his two children, had initially said she had his back and insisted he would never commit the crime he was arrested for.
The sports agent later claimed she felt like she had been ‘used’, telling Spanish television: ‘For me he doesn’t exist. He died for me.’
