An appeals court has acquitted former Barcelona and Brazil full-back Dani Alves of sexual assault and overturned a four-and-half-year prison sentence. Alves, 41, was sentenced in February 2024 for an alleged sexual assault at a Barcelona nightclub in December 2022.

Dani Alves has won his appeal against a sexual assault conviction as a Spanish court overturned the ruling; ex-Barcelona and Brazil star was sentenced to four years, six months in prison after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a young woman in a nightclub,

Dani Alves, the former Barcelona and Brazilian national team star, won his appeal Friday after being found guilty of rape last year.