Lisbon, January 2 (EFE). – Brazilian Dani Alves, former FC Barcelona winger, has become one of the owners of a Portuguese club, Sporting São João de Ver, which currently plays in the third division of the Portuguese country.
Alves’s joining São João de Ver was officially announced by the club itself in a statement published on the social network Facebook, in which it stressed that the former Barça player “brings a global vision, winning mentality and ambition”.
“A name that brings with it one of the most successful careers in world football now meets a club with deep roots, made of work, resilience and passion. Two different stories that share a common goal: turning potential into greatness,” the club wrote.
“This union symbolizes more than a structural change. It represents the encounter between the experience of a person who conquered the world and the soul of a club that has never stopped believing,” it continues, accompanied by some images in which the Brazilian can be seen wearing the team’s jersey.
Dani Alves, 42, joins the club as a partner from the Portuguese city of Santa Maria da Feira (centre) after being acquitted by the Supreme Court of Catalonia (TSJC) last March of the crime of raping a young woman in Barcelona.
The former Brazil international spent fourteen months in preventive detention and was sentenced to four and a half years in prison, but the TSJC overturned the decision because it considered there was no evidence of the attack and the complainant’s testimony was not “reliable”. EFE
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