Dani Alves still paid by São Paulo, buys Portuguese club | OneFootball

Former right-back Daniel Alves has completed the purchase of Sporting Clube de São João de Ver, a third division team in Portugal, where he might even return to the pitch for six months to end his career.

The former player, accused of sexual abuse in Spain, convicted, and imprisoned, was later acquitted by the Catalonia Court of Justice. The justification was that the testimony of the young Spanish woman who accused him was insufficient to uphold the conviction.

And São Paulo has some involvement in Daniel’s acquisition in Portugal, since the club still pays about R$ 450,000 to its former player, at least that was the amount paid by Tricolor in 2024, as revealed by president Julio Casares in an interview at the time.

Alves secured the purchase of control of Sporting’s SAD, which would be similar to the SAF model we are used to in Brazil, alongside other investors, as initially reported by ESPN.

At the end of 2024, Tricolor’s debt to the former right-back was R$ 6.7 million. If the club continues paying the R$ 450,000 mentioned by the president, the debt may have dropped to R$ 1.3 million, to be settled next year.

The now businessman also went viral worldwide in recent months after appearing in a video preaching at a Pentecostal evangelical church in Girona, Spain. On his social media, messages from the Bible and about faith are also prevalent.

Also according to ESPN, since leaving prison after posting bail paid by his friend Neymar, Daniel Alves has been working behind the scenes in football, especially in Europe, almost as an agent, but still with the idea of returning to play and later starting a coaching career.

Daniel played for São Paulo in a crazy and irresponsible transfer between 2019 and 2021, terminating his contract 15 months earlier than initially planned. That’s when Tricolor reached a payment agreement of R$ 25 million in 40 installments.

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