Tenerife He doesn’t want to know anything about Dani Alves. The idyll with the footballer due to his permanent visits and mentions to the island after starting a relationship with the chicharrera model Joana Sanz, whom he married in 2017, has been completely broken. after the 39-year-old Brazilian entered prison on Friday the 20th accused of sexually assaulting a young woman in a Barcelona nightclub. Joana Sanz herself has deleted from her social networks the numerous images in which she appeared with Alves, some of them in Tenerife.
Joana Sanz, who married Alves in 2017, receives insults after deleting her photos with him
They have also eliminated the snapshots of other islanders who posed with Dani Alves as the mayor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Jose Manuel Bermudez. He was found in a hotel in the capital of Tenerife, on the player’s penultimate visit to the island after participating with Brazil in the Qatar World Cup, in which the Rio de Janeiro team was eliminated in the quarterfinals. It was at the end of last December. He had returned to visit his wife. It was a few days before Alves flew to Barcelona, where he has a residence, and on the night of December 30 he starred in the alleged rape for which he was sent to Brians prison.
Some islanders believed on December 28, just two days before, the innocence of a media outlet that assured that the Sports Club Tenerife had signed Dani Alves. It made some sense that they would fall into the trap. The footballer had been seen ten times in Tenerife in the last eight years and had earned the sympathy of the people of Tenerife for his nods to the island. He had even been associated with the top soccer team in Tenerife on another occasion, although also more jokingly than seriously. All that affection suddenly exploded into a thousand pieces when, as of last Friday the 20th, the extreme seriousness of the events he was accused of when he was marching in Barcelona began to become known.
The trace on social networks
Part of the trace that Alves left in Tenerife remains on the networkswith photos of him eating gofio, posing with surfers on a beach in Anaga, bathing in El Bollullo (La Orotava), walking down Castillo de Santa Cruz street, playing a futsal game in the Pabellón de Sports from the capital of Tenerife or holding a film camera in the Parque Bulevar shopping center.
On the fateful Friday, January 20, the day the judge sent him to prison without bail after questioning him, Dani Alves had landed in Barcelona from Tenerife. He traveled to the island from Mexico, where he trained with the Pumas of the Mexican first division, a club that he had joined this season and that had just fired him. He jumped across the Atlantic to be with his wife again. It was precisely from the beginning of the relationship with the chicharrera Joana Sanz that Alves’ trips to the island began. Of this last displacement, however, no images remain. The couple did not upload anything to the networks nor did any passerby run into it on the street or on the beach. Alves had returned to Tenerife to support Joana, who had just lost her mother.
Before accepting his trip to Barcelona to make himself available to the Spanish justice system and testify before magistrate Anna Marín, head of Barcelona’s court number 15, Alves agreed with the Mossos d’Esquadra, the Catalan regional police that is conducting the investigation. of sexual assault, that they let him fly to Tenerife first. His mother-in-law, María del Carmen Sanz Rodríguez, had died on January 13 on the island at the age of 65 from a tumor. Burial took place the following day at the Servisa funeral home, between Santa Cruz de Tenerife and La Laguna. The player accompanied his wife in those days of mourning until on the 20th he appeared before the judge in Barcelona.
The high risk of flight
Alves knew that he could be arrested but what he did not expect -due to the contradictions in his versions- is that the Mossos had solid evidence -images from the security cameras, medical examinations of the victim, biological remains collected at the scene of the events, witness testimonies – of the alleged sexual assault on the 23-year-old girl. He also did not think that he could end up in prison, as the magistrate finally decided given the serious facts with which he was accused and the high risk of flight. If he takes refuge in Brazil, where he was born, the capture of Dani Alves will be impossible as this country does not have an extradition agreement with Spain.
The soccer player posed on various beaches on the island, eating gofio and holding the Canarian flag
The Tenerife model Joana Sanz is not Alves’ only Canarian connection. The soccer player born in Bahia has just hired the prestigious criminal Christopher Martell to join the team of lawyers who defend him in the legal proceedings. The lawyer, who has handled cases as famous as that of the Argentine soccer player Leo Messi, the former president of the Catalan Generalitat Jordi Pujol, the former treasurer of the PP Álvaro Lapuerta or the former president of the Barcelona Football Club Josep Lluís Núñez, is from the Canary Islands. He spent his youth in Gran Canaria for his family comes from this island. Martell studied at the German College in the capital of Gran Canaria but settled in Barcelona after studying Law at the Autonomous and Central Universities of the Catalan capital. There he continues to live.
Martell, considered one of the best penalty shooters in Spain, was actually born in Caracas. But it was something circumstantial because his father, also a lawyer and also called Cristóbal Martell, was in the Venezuelan capital for work reasons. He worked for the Spanish Embassy. He soon settled with his family in Gran Canaria. His father, who passed away 24 years ago, was from Valsequillo.
Martell, your Canarian lawyer
Islander Cristóbal Martell joins Alves’ defense after having won other highly relevant cases. But the Brazilian’s relationship with the Islands went back a long way, from when he met Joana Sanz from Tenerife in Barcelona in 2015. He was a member of Barça -he played in two stages: from 2008 to 2016 and in 2022- and she was already a highly sought-after model then, when she was only 22 years old. They were introduced by mutual friends. They got married two years later, in July 2017, on the small Balearic island of Formentera.
Dani monopolized fame but Joana was also very well known at that time, especially in the world of fashion. At the age of 15, Joana Sanz, who comes from the chicharrero neighborhood of Añaza, is discovered by the Tenerife stylist Juan Castañeda. At 17, she wins the Supermodel of the World, from the prestigious Ford Agency in New York. She embarks on a career that leads her to move between Madrid, Barcelona, Milan or New York and to be a regular on the main catwalks. She walks in Cibeles, Gaudí or Moda Cálida and poses for brands such as Women Secret, Desigual, Loewe, Vogue, Jimmy Choo, Philip Plein, Yamamay, Sony or Samsung. In 2015, when she began the relationship with Alves, Sanz received the award for the best model at Mercedes-Benz Week Madrid. The 1.80-meter woman achieves great international projection –which she maintains today– and great notoriety. She alone on Instagram she has 879,000 followers.
In barely a week, Joana Sanz has received two very hard blows: the death of her mother and the imprisonment of her husband. She came to ask the media, through her profiles on social networks, in which she is very active, not to harass her.
His response to Dani Alves being held without bail has varied as the very serious accusations against him have become known. She has gone from posting in a story on Instagram, a few hours after learning of Alves’ imprisonment and without yet knowing many details of what her husband is accused of, the message “heart, endure so much pain, please”, to deleting the numerous images in which she appeared with him. After eliminating all traces of Alves, the Tenerife native has denounced that she is receiving all kinds of insults on her social media profiles.
Alves is accused of having raped a young woman on December 30 at the Sutton nightclub in Barcelona, when he was in the company of a friend and the woman, two friends. According to the young woman’s complaint, which led the judge – along with the evidence collected – to order the prison without bail, Alves invited her to a VIP booth and assaulted her in a bathroom for 16 minutes. The security of the establishment launched the protocol against sexual assaults as soon as they found out what had happened and verified the state of nervousness of the victim.
According to the complainant’s version, revealed by El Periódico, from the same publishing group as EL DÍA, in a nightclub service Dani Alves forced her to sit on top of him, threw her to the ground, forced her to give him fellatio, which he she actively resisted, slapped her, lifted her off the ground, and penetrated her until she ejaculated. Alves left the nightclub running into the complainant, who was crying. He ignored her.
Alves had been in Tenerife at least twice before starting the relationship with Joana Sanz. It was only a few days. The first was in 2010 to play as a starter for FC Barcelona against CD Tenerife at the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium. The First Division match was played on January 10, 2010. The blaugranas won 0-5, with three goals from Messi. The second time he was seen on the island was in May 2013. In a photo posted on Twitter, he appears in a restaurant in the South.
On the beaches of Anaga
All the others were after meeting Joana Sanz and had an impact on the island’s digital media and social networks. On the first of these visits, in July 2015, shortly after it was confirmed that he was dating the Añaza model, it is clear that Alves is enjoying a vacation in Tenerife. He poses with some surfers on Almáciga beach (Anaga), in another photograph he greets the camera in the company of three young people on Bollullo beach (north of the island) and in a third he appears with the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Auditorium in background in the company of Joana Sanz and her mother-in-law.
He was seen again in Tenerife in May 2018. A passerby portrays him sitting on a bench on Méndez Núñez street with Joana Sanz and some crutches, when they have been married for a year. The Tenerife woman herself posted a video recorded on the island in which Alves has milk with gofio for breakfast. “He is more Canarian than me,” Joana clarifies in the comments.
On one occasion, Dani Alves flirted with signing for CD Tenerife. It was in the summer of 2019. “I’m looking for a job, where do I leave my resume?” Alves wrote on his Instagram profile. He had just left Paris Saint Germain. “In Tenerife my child,” Joana Sanz replied. CD Tenerife joined the chat: «Hello Dani Alves! Joana Sanz is right. Shall we talk via DM? “Come on!” Said the footballer. A photomontage even circulated in which Alves appeared with Tete’s luggage. It will no longer be possible.
