A Spanish prosecutor is seeking a nine-year prison term for former Brazil and Barcelona defender, Dani Alves, who is set to stand trial in Spain for alleged sexual assault last December.
The 40-year-old has been in detention without bail since his arrest in January over accusations of assaulting a woman in a Barcelona nightclub.
Initially denying any sexual encounter, Alves later admitted to consensual sex with the accuser.
The prosecutor also seeks a restraining order for Alves’ post-jail term and demands damages of 150,000 euros (£130,500) to be paid to the woman, according to a Sky Sports report.
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In August, a court in the Barcelona area formally indicted Alves, determining there was sufficient evidence to proceed to trial.
The trial date for Alves, who represented Brazil in the last World Cup in Qatar – his third World Cup appearance, and had his contract terminated with Mexican club UNAM after the arrest, is yet to be scheduled.
In January Alves was transferred to a new detention centre because of security reasons after spending three nights at another facility that holds about 200 inmates.
He won 42 major honours, including three Champions League titles with Barcelona and two Copa America titles with Brazil.
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Recall that Alves was born in Juazeiro, a city in the Brazilian state of Bahia, to father Domingos Alves da Silva, a farmer.
His 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, his father re-positioned him as a right-back, a position he still plays up to this day. He once worked as a farmer and a trader in his youth.
By Austine Akhilomen
