4 weeks ago
A erstwhile team-mate of Dani Alves and Robinho has pulled nary punches erstwhile speaking astir nan 2 players' demises.
Both Alves and Robinho person been charged pinch rape, destroying their legacies and could some service sentences for crimes they were some charged pinch successful nan past fewer weeks, though Alves is appealing his conviction.
Alves walked from Brians 2 Prison adjacent Barcelona past week aft posting a €1million (£850,000) bail bond and winning his bid to entreaty his four-and-a-half-year jailhouse condemnation from his home.
Robinho, meanwhile, was arrested astatine his level successful Santos past week having been recovered blameworthy successful 2017 for his portion successful nan pack rape of an Albanian female astatine a nighttime nine successful Milan successful January 2013. He is group to service a nine-year situation sentence.
The brace played for Brazil together for a number of years and now, erstwhile team-mate Felipe Melo has spoken retired against some men.
A erstwhile team-mate of Davi Alves (left) and Robinho (right) pulled nary punches erstwhile it came to nan pair's rape convictions
Alves and Robinho (left and 2nd left) played for Brazil alongside nan subordinate (right), including astatine nan 2010 World Cup
Felipe Melo said nan brace 'have to salary for what they did' and their condemnation should 'serve arsenic a lesson'
'I person a 15-year-old daughter,' Melo began, speaking to Globo Sporte. 'If they had done that pinch my daughter, I don't deliberation I would beryllium present to springiness this interview.
'I judge we must respect different quality beings, we must respect women, we must respect men. They person to salary for what they did. And fto it service arsenic a instruction truthful that others do not do it. This is very serious.'
Melo, presently 40 and playing for Fluminense successful Brazil, played for nan the Brazilian nationalist squad betwixt 2009 and 2010, making 22 appearances, including successful nan 2010 World Cup.
Playing for Juventus astatine nan time, Melo travelled to nan tourney successful South Africa arsenic portion of a 23-man squad that besides included Alves and Robinho.
He has besides played for nan likes of Galatasaray and Inter Milan successful his career.
Alves, meanwhile, posted bail contempt his lawyer, Ines Guardiola last twelvemonth claiming her customer 'is broke' and has a 'negative slope equilibrium of £17,000', contempt reportedly erstwhile having a luck of £47m.
The proceeding to find Alves' bail had noted nan 40-year-old was group to person 'a ample sum of money' backmost from nan treasury aft his taxation lawyer Fernando Mota won 4 cases against Spain's taxation agency, but he had not yet received nan costs erstwhile he near jail.
Brazilian team-mate Neymar's dada had been expected to thief Alves salary nan money to unafraid his freedom, but he issued a connection denying he would manus complete immoderate rate aft coming nether governmental unit successful his homeland. Alves has protested his innocence.
Melo (top right) said he doesn't deliberation he 'would beryllium here' had nan players 'done that' to his daughter
Alves has been released from situation aft he posted a bail enslaved of €1million (£850,000)
Alves, who has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years successful prison, will entreaty his sentence
Robinho, who played for nan likes of Real Madrid and Manchester City and made complete 100 appearances for Brazil, had his last entreaty against his condemnation dismissed successful January 2022.
The forward, existent sanction Robson De Souza, claims he is guiltless and has been surviving successful Brazil for nan past 7 years.
Robinho, who was 28 and was playing for AC Milan astatine nan time, admitted during his entreaty to having 'contact' pinch nan woman, but nan Brazilian insisted it was consensual.
The Milan Court of Appeals recovered he had 'belittled' and 'brutally humiliated' nan unfortunate arsenic it upheld his original condemnation successful December 2020.
