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

The former right-back Daniel Alves completed the purchase of Sporting Clube de São João de Ver, from Portugal's third division, where he might even return to the field for six months to retire 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 stake in this acquisition of Daniel in Portugal, as the club still pays about R$ 450,000 to its former athlete, at least that was the amount disbursed by Tricolor in 2024, as revealed by president Julio Casares in an interview at the time.

Alves finalized the purchase of the control of Sporting's SAD, which would be the SAF model we are accustomed to here in Brazil, alongside other investors, as initially reported by ESPN.

At the end of 2024, Tricolor's debt with 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 decreased to R$ 1.3 million, to be settled next year.

The now businessman also went viral in recent months worldwide by appearing in a video preaching in a Pentecostal evangelical church in Girona, Spain. On his social media, messages of the Bible and faith also prevail.

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 a businessman, but still with the idea of returning to play and then starting a career as a coach.

Daniel played for São Paulo in a crazy and irresponsible transfer between 2019 and 2021, breaking his contract 15 months earlier than initially planned. It was from there that Tricolor reached a payment agreement of R$ 25 million in 40 installments.

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