Dani Alves is well known to every football fan. After all, he is one of the best extreme defenders of the world, as well as the most titled player in history. This person definitely deserves respect and attention, but because now it’s worth briefly telling about his biography and career.
Bahia and Seville
Dani Alves started playing football at an early age, like all other famous players. His first team was FC Juazeiro, where he spent two years from 1996 to 1998.
Then he went to the Bahia club. He spent five years there. His debut in the first team happened in 2001. In total, he spent 25 matches for the team and scored 2 goals.
But then the football player Dani Alves moved to the Spanish “Seville”, which offered him to start a 6-month contract. After the young defender became the winner of the tournament together with the youth team of Brazil and entered the TOP-3 of the best players of the tournament, the club finally bought it.
In 2006, Dani signed a 6-year contract with Sevilla. But until 2012, he did not remain in the team. Alves played in Seville until 2008. For all the time he spent 175 matches and scored 11 goals.
Further career
In 2008, Dani Alves was bought by Barcelona for 35.5 million euros. The contract was concluded for 5 years, but later it lasted up to 8. The Sevilla defender left with tears in his eyes. In an interview, he said that he came to this team as a boy and leaves as a man.
Alves spent 8 years at Barcelona. During this time, the footballer played 247 matches and scored 14 goals. But then the contract ended, and he moved to Juventus, being a free agent. There he spent one season, playing 19 matches and scoring 2 goals.
In the summer of 2017, it became known that Dani Alves signed a contract with the French PSG. It is designed until the end of June 2019. At the moment, the defender has played 25 games for the Paris club and scored one goal.
Achievements
The trophies of Dani Alves deserve special attention. He has 40 team awards in total! Among them:
- Victory in the Bahia State Championship.
- Two Northeast Cups.
- Spanish Cup and Super Cup.
- Two Cups and one UEFA Super Cup.
- Six victories in the Championship of Spain.
- 4 Cups and 4 Super Bowl of Spain.
- Three victories in the Champions League.
- Three UEFA Super Cups.
- Three victories in the Club World Cup.
- Victory in Serie A.
- Italian Cup.
- Victory in League 1.
- French Cup.
- French League Cup.
- French Super Cup.
- America's Cup.
- Two Confederations Cups.
In addition, Dani Alves has many personal awards. He became the best defender of the Spanish Championship, and he was also included in various symbolic teams 18 times (according to FIFA, UEFA, L'Équipe and ESM).
Personal life
Well, we can talk about this last. Dani Alves was married for three years to Dinor Santana, who was his agent. The couple had a son, Daniel, and a daughter, Victoria. But in 2011, young people divorced.
Then, for some time, Alves met with Taisha Carvalho, a Brazilian actress. But relations with her did not last long.
The following relationship with Dani began in 2015. The model was chosen by Joan Sans - a chic girl who was born in the Canary Islands and who later built a career in Barcelona.
They’ve been dating for three years now. And, judging by the joint photographs regularly posted by both on their profiles on Instagram, the couple happily spends time.