Overview
- Dani Alves took the stage at The Change, a Christian rally at Atlético Madrid’s Metropolitano stadium, drawing a reported crowd of more than 35,000 over the weekend.
- From the platform he declared, “In prison Christ made me free” and “Spain, your time has come,” and La Vanguardia noted his line about being “detained forty years” was a spiritual metaphor rather than a literal claim.
- He previously spent about 14 months in pretrial detention at Brians 2 following a 2022 sexual‑assault accusation linked to Barcelona’s Sutton nightclub.
- In March 2025 Catalonia’s high court overturned his 2024 conviction, citing a lack of corroborating evidence and contradictions in the accuser’s account.
- Spain’s public prosecutor has appealed that ruling to the Supreme Court, leaving the legal outcome unsettled as Alves builds a new profile as a religious speaker.