From Cristiano's Las Vegas hotel to Neymar scandals: the blacklist of sexual abuse of soccer stars

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Dani Alves

has Dani Alves has entered a despicable list: that of footballers accused of rape or sexual abuse.

The former Barcelona player has already spent his first hours in prison after a judge upheld the statement given by a 23-year-old girl who accuses him of having raped her in a bathroom in a private room at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona on 30 September. December.

Los Pumas, the Mexican team of the Brazilian winger, has terminated his contract.

The former Barça winger is, as it is, the new member of a long list of footballers stained by indecent behavior, when not criminal.

Many of them were convicted of his acts.

Others saw how his name was cleared, although the shadow of suspicion will accompany them for the rest of their lives.

CHRISTIAN RONALDO

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In 2009, the Portuguese soccer player was accused by the American model

of having anally raped her in a Las Vegas hotel.

In 2010, a confidential agreement was closed, in which the player wanted to put his innocence in writing.

The charges were dropped, according to various US media outlets.

In 2018, nine years after the alleged events, the complainant contacted the police again to have the case reopened.

Her lawyer argued that her client had psychological disorders and that the first agreement should be void due to the pressures to which she had been subjected.

, about 200 million dollars.

In 2019, the US justice system decided not to take criminal legal action due to lack of evidence.

On June 11 of last year, a Nevada court finally dismissed the civil lawsuit filed against the Portuguese.

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ROBINHO

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The former Real Madrid and Milan player, among other clubs, was sentenced in 2017 to nine years in prison and to pay a fine of 60,000 euros for the group rape of a 23-year-old Albanian girl.

The events also took place in a nightclub, in this case in Milan, in 2013. The Brazilian striker was also accused of diverting investigations into the case, but has not served a single day of his sentence.

Since the resolution of the Italian justice was known, he has not set foot in Europe again.

, but the Brazilian constitution prohibits the surrender of its citizens to foreign authorities.

Mina, last April, at the Provincial Court of Almería.EFE

HOLY MINE

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The former Celta and Valencia footballer, who now plays for Al-Shabab in Saudi Arabia, was sentenced last May by the Provincial Court of Almería to four years in prison (a sentence that is currently suspended) since pay a fine of 50,000 euros for a crime of sexual abuse to a young woman who accused him in 2017. That woman also pointed to the player

The event took place in the month of June, near a nightclub in the town of Mojácar.

The forward denied the facts and in September 2022 filed allegations before the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia.

He raised doubts about the plaintiff's lack of consent and assured that she had demanded the payment of 400,000 euros in exchange for withdrawing her complaint.

NEYMAR

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The former Barcelona striker has been surrounded by accusations of sexual abuse on at least a couple of occasions.

In 2019, a model accused him of having raped her in a Paris hotel.

The striker acknowledged having had sexual relations with the young woman, but maintained that they had been consensual and the Brazilian justice system, at the request of the Prosecutor's Office,

, which was investigated in turn. for possible false denunciation and extortion.

In 2021,

revealed the case of a Nike employee who accused Neymar of having forced her to perform oral sex on her in a New York hotel in 2016. The footballer refused to cooperate in the investigation of facts that he insisted on denying over and over again.

The American multinational decided to end the million-dollar sponsorship contract it had with the Brazilian attacker.

Mendy, last February, in the Chester courts. EFE

BENJAMIN MENDY

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Last week, the Frenchman was found not guilty of six cases of rape and one of sexual assault, as ruled by a court in Chester (England).

However, the jury did not reach a verdict on the charge of rape and another of attempted rape, which opens

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Mendy, 28, was suspended by Manchester City in August 2021, when the cases came to light.

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