Dani Alves, from bad to worse: judicial setback and without the possibility of playing a famous football tournament between prisoners

It would have been the return to football Daniele Alves after the World Cup. Even after ending up behind bars since January 20, when the Justice of Spain issued the preventive prison after someone accused him of rape. But the prison where he is being held is not one of the 33 participating in the football tournament organized by Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF)together with the national government.

Alves has spent the last three months in the prison located within the Brians II complex on the outskirts of Barcelona, ​​about 40 kilometers from the nightclub where a 23-year-old woman has reported being raped by the footballer.

Alves’ defense has asked that, to ascertain whether the story and the symptoms presented by the actor are compatible with those of a rape, the young woman be examined by a coroner and a psychologist designated by him.

The strategy is to demonstrate that the complainant suffers from a “narrative distortion” and in the same request has raised the request to record the expertise on video, which both the prosecutor and the private defense called “unusual” and which the judge himself rejected.

Dani Alves, to testify

The refusal to receive a private expert opinion prompted the defense to ask Alves again to testify. He will be transferred from prison on Monday so that at 10:30 he will appear before the judge and expand on his version, which has undergone changes over the weeks, although he has always maintained that he supported a consensual relationship in the bathroom of the discotheque where both, defendant and accuser, were on the night of last December 30th.

In previous statements, the former player offered up to three different versionssince at first he claimed – in a video broadcast by a television channel – that he did not know the young woman, even if he later admitted that he had consented to fellatio.

While under investigation, Alves can expand his statement whenever he sees fit, as that is what the law states. On Monday, he’ll have another chance to tell his version of himself.

Because Inter from prison won’t play

He Intercentric Penitentiary Tournament (TIP) started on Wednesday and inmates from centers in Castilla-La Mancha, Andalusia, Madrid, Cantabria, La Rioja, Navarra, Galicia, Murcia and the Valencian Community compete. The communities of the Basque Country and Catalonia – where the prison where the Brazilian footballer is being held is located – are not part of the programme.

The eleventh edition of the TIP is co-organised by the RFEF and the Ministry of the Interior, and will have the semi-finals in Madrid and Antequera, while the Ciudad del Fútbol de Las Rozas – the Spanish stadium equivalent of the AFA – will host the term in the first fortnight of June.

Had he participated, it would have been Alves’ first match after being part of the Brazil squad at the World Cup in Qatar. The elimination in the quarter-finals against Croatia came from the substitutes’ bench.

Another ex-Barcelona member of Canarinha participated in a similar experience: during his stay in the Paraguayan prison, Ronaldinho was the protagonist of the inter-detainee.