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A former team-mate of Dani Alves and Robinho has pulled no punches when speaking about the two players' demises.
Both Alves and Robinho have been charged with rape, destroying their legacies and could both serve sentences for crimes they were both charged with in the last few weeks, though Alves is appealing his conviction.
Alves walked from Brians 2 Prison near Barcelona last week after posting a €1million (£850,000) bail bond and winning his bid to appeal his four-and-a-half-year jail sentence from his home.
Robinho, meanwhile, was arrested at his flat in Santos last week having been found guilty in 2017 for his part in the gang rape of an Albanian woman at a night club in Milan in January 2013. He is set to serve a nine-year prison sentence.
The pair played for Brazil together for a number of years and now, former team-mate Felipe Melo has spoken out against both men.
A former team-mate of Davi Alves (left) and Robinho (right) pulled no punches when it came to the pair's rape convictions
Alves and Robinho (left and second left) played for Brazil alongside the player (right), including at the 2010 World Cup
Felipe Melo said the pair 'have to pay for what they did' and their conviction should 'serve as a lesson'
'I have a 15-year-old daughter,' Melo began, speaking to Globo Sporte. 'If they had done that with my daughter, I don't think I would be here to give this interview.
'I believe we must respect other human beings, we must respect women, we must respect men. They have to pay
