Catalonia's top court on Thursday found former Brazil footballer Dani Alves guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in a Barcelona nightclub in 2022, sentencing him to four and a half years in prison.

Alves spent 15 months in custody, before being convicted of rape for an incident in December of 2022 in a Barcelona nightclub. He was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison and ordered to pay €150k in ...