Dani Alves, in his second spell at Barcelona (2021/22)
After FC Porto surprised with the signing of Thiago Silva, this Saturday, news appears in Brazil that Dani Alves is preparing to buy São João de Ver and return to active duty for the League 3 club.
A wave of great Brazilian stars in their forties is arriving in Portugal.
Thiago Silva (41 years old) is the most recent addition to the FC Porto.
The central defender ended his contract with Fluminense in December, the club where he played for the last two seasons, signing for the blue and whites as a free player until the end of the season, with another season as an option.
O fifth most capped player ever for Canarinha (113 games) he returned to the club 21 after having been part of the Porto B team in 2005.
But better than having the fifth most capped player ever for Brazil is having the fourth most capped player ever: Dani Alves (126 games).
One day after Thiago Silva’s announcement, the Brazilian press announced that his former teammate and PSG prepare to buy São João de Ver.
Still according to , the second player with most titles in history of world football (42, just behind Messi’s 46) Are you considering playing again? at the League 3 club.
Dani Alves, currently 42 years old, was at the World Cup in Qatar in 2022, but retired from football about a month later (he played for Pumas in Mexico), after being accused and later arrested for sexual assault in Spain.
The complaint came from a 23-year-old woman who complains of being sexually assaulted by the player in the bathroom of a nightclub in Barcelona on December 31, 2022.
He is ex-Barça spent 14 months in pre-trial detentionbut was released in March 2024, after paying a bail of one million euros.
A year later, the Court of Justice of Catalonia considered that the testimony of the young woman who accused him was insufficient to support the current conviction.
ESPN Brasil writes that the right-back wants to return to the pitch to end his career definitively – and could even do so in the last place in Serie A of League 3.
The same channel says Dani Alves has the support from a group of investors Brazilians to close the purchase of SAD from São João de Ver.
