Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 4:59 PM• Sam Vreeswijk • Last update: 17:09

Things don’t seem to be going well for Dani Alves. The Brazilian right back is in a prison in Barcelona because he is accused of rape. This week, his wife Joana Sanz announced that she wanted to divorce Alves, a decision that has been made according to the Spanish TV channel Cuatro would have left Alves “completely devastated and very frightened.” In addition, he would be on a hunger strike.

Via an open letter on her own social media, Sanz announced a few days ago that she wanted to divorce Alves. The defender would not have seen that decision coming, which led to him being completely devastated. The fact that Alves has recently lost his cellmate makes him feel even more lonely. “He wants to sit in his cell all day and there are days when he doesn’t eat anything at all,” reports Cuatro among other.

Alves and Sanz have been married since 2017. According to Cuatro Sanz was more or less the only person the Brazilian had left in Spain, as the rest of his family lives in his native country. “She was his anchor in the country where he is imprisoned,” said the TV channel. Not only the decision to divorce, but also the way his wife announced it, shocked Alves. “It hurts him especially that she published it.”

Alves is accused of raping a woman in the toilet of a nightclub in Barcelona last December. The defender has already changed his statement four times. Last month, Alves confessed according to Mark to have penetrated a 23-year-old woman in the nightclub. All previous statements were according to Mark to hide infidelity in marriage to Sanz. She recently visited Alves in prison.