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Dani Alves' wife has shared a picture with the disgraced Barcelona star for the first time since he was released from prison.
The shamed footballer, who has appealed a four-and-a-half year jail sentence after being found guilty of rape last month, was released from prison after paying €1m (£850,000) bail.
And he appears to have been reconciled with wife Joana Sanz, who had demanded a divorce after Alves was arrested.
However, the 31-year-old later said the divorce had been put on hold and she gave evidence on his behalf at his trial.
On Monday, the Spanish model shared a photo of the pair holding hands, with what appeared to be matching 1+1=1 tattoos.
Dani Alves appears to have been reconciled with wife Joana Sanz, 31, (pictured on holiday a few years ago) after being released from bail
The Spanish model shared a photo on Monday of the pair holding hands, with what appeared to be matching 1+1=1 tattoos
Alves' distinctive hand ink was also on display.
In an Instagram post, she wrote: 'May this month be good, may you be stronger than you have been until today. May you feel totally grateful because, despite everything, you are here.
'May it be a month to give and receive love, a month to feel at peace and happy for everything you have fought for an how much you are yet to achieve.
'May April be a positive month for everyone.'
Spanish journalist Marisa Martín Blazquez, speaking on Fiesta, reported that a Brazilian magazine paid Alves bail in exchange for an interview.
Blazquez said the Alves would have been requested to ask his model wife Joana Sanz to feature as part of the interview.
'The magazine, known in Brazil, does great reports on important people in Brazil, but also internationally,' Blazquez said.
'There are a series of requirements that must be met.
'An interview would be being conducted as a video report on Alves' story and, in addition, Alves would have asked Joana Sanz to participate in this report.
Alves was released from prison after he appealed a four-and-a-half year jail sentence after being found guilty of rape last month
'[The payment] would have been an advance as payment for that documentary-type interview that is being done.'
Sanz revealed last year she had demanded a divorce after Alves admitted for the first time to having sex with the woman he was found guilty of raping, but claimed as he still does that the relations were consensual.
The 31-year-old brunette later said the divorce had been put on hold and she gave evidence on Alves' behalf at his trial from February 5 to 7.
Alves is on provisional release and will usually attend court hearings on Friday.
The former Barcelona player was released from Brians 2 prison a week ago after 15 months spent behind bars awaiting his trial for raping a woman in December 2022.
The 40-year-old was found guilty in February of this year and sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison, but Alves is in the process of appealing the verdict, and will be doing so from his own home after agreeing to a number of conditions handed out by the court.
Alves has surrended both his Spanish and Brazilian passports, and will have mandatory once-a-week visits to the
