Showing posts with label Dani Alves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dani Alves. Show all posts
Monday, 1 December 2025
Friday, 5 September 2025
UN-BEE-LIEVABLE FOOTBALL MATCH SUSPENDED AS SWARM OF BEES WRECK HAVOC WITH TERRIFIED PLAYERS FORCED TO LIE FLAT ON THE GROUND
Ex-Barcelona star and tennis superstar both stung while playing matches in recent years
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| Footballers took emergency cover during a bee invasion. Credit: X/ESPNFC |
A FOOTBALL match was dramatically suspended due to a swarm of BEES.
Players, referees, ballkids and even a cameraman all took emergency cover by lying on the ground in chaotic scenes.
City FC Abuja took on JKU FC in Babati, Tanzania in a pre-season tournament.
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| Both teams dropped on to the floor to avoid the stingers. Credit: X/ESPNFC |
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| Even the cameraman was not taking any chances. Credit: X/ESPNFC |
But with the two sides locked at 1-1 in the 78th minute at the Kwaraa Stadium, play was halted for a bizarre reason.
Incredibly, a load of bees suddenly turned up and flew around the pitch.
So the two sets of players took evasive action - by dropping to their bellies and lying down to take cover.
An assistant referee and someone operating the broadcast TV camera did the same.
Even the substitutes hid under the bench of the dugouts - although they seemingly did see the funny side.
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| The substitutes hid under the bench. Credit: X/ESPNFC |
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| The assistant referee also took shelterCredit: X/ESPNFC |
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| This ballboy joined in by lying on the groundCredit: X/ESPNFC |
The spectators in the crowd, though, remained unmoved in their seats.
It is unclear if that was out of ignorance of the situation unfolding or sheer bravery.
It is also what triggered the surprise arrival of the insects.
Some suggested freak weather in the week leading up to the match.
Others thought the vibrations from the match itself may have contributed.
Either way, the bees led to baffling footage.
Thankfully, reports state no one was stung during the invasion.
Instead, City FC Abuja had their own sting in the tail by grabbing a late winner.
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| A Carlos Alcaraz tennis match was halted last year when bees attacked the spider-camCredit: EPA |
Fans took to social media with their stunned reaction to the unlikely interruption.
One said: "This is just unnecessarily funny."
Another wrote: "Nature doesn't care about your football schedule. Smart move to lie down though, hope no one got hurt."
And a third simply added: "Just wow."
Ex-Barcelona and Brazil star Dani Alves got caught out by a wasp while playing for Sao Paulo in 2019.
And in tennis, Carlos Alcaraz's showdown with Alexander Zverev at Indian Wells last year was suspended when the Spaniard was stung during a bee invasion.
- Joshua Jones
Thursday, 22 February 2024
SOCCER STAR DANI ALVES FOUND GUILTY OF RAPE, SENTENCED TO FOUR AND A HALF YEARS IN PRISON
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| AP Photo |
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Dani Alves, one of the most successful soccer players of his generation, was found guilty of raping a woman in a Barcelona nightclub and sentenced to four years and six months in prison on Thursday.
Besides disgracing the former Brazil and Barcelona right back, the conviction was applauded in Spain as a victory for a pioneering sexual liberty law that emphasises the lack of consent of the victim as key to determining sex crimes.
A three-judge panel at the Barcelona Provincial Court convicted the 40-year-old Alves of sexual assault for the incident on Dec. 31, 2022.
The court ordered Alves to pay 150,000 euros ($162,000) in compensation to the victim, banned him from approaching the victim’s home or place of work, and from communicating with her by any means for nine years.
“I still believe in the innocence of Mr. Alves,” InĂ©s Guardiola, Alves' lawyer, said. “I need to study the ruling, but I can tell you that of course we will appeal.”
Guardiola said Alves was “calm and collected" when he heard the verdict in court.
“We are satisfied," David SĂĄenz, a member of the victim’s legal team, said, "because this verdict recognizes what we have always known, that the victim told the truth and that she has suffered."
The victim’s lawyer, Ester GarcĂa, said on Wednesday she and her client would not be present for the verdict.
The victim said Alves raped her in the bathroom of a Barcelona nightclub on the morning of Dec. 31, 2022. The court considered it proven that the victim did not consent to sex and there was evidence, in addition to the defendant’s testimony, that she was raped.
Alves denied during the three-day trial this month that he raped the woman, testifying to the court “I am not that kind of man.”
Friday, 3 February 2023
DANI ALVES' WIFE JOANNA SANZ FILES FOR DIVORCE
Dani Alves' wife has filed for divorce after the soccer star was arrested for sexual assault.
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
Saturday, 12 May 2018
Thursday, 18 May 2017
COPPA ITALIA: JUVENTUS LIFT COPPA ITALIA FOR THE 3RD TIME CONSECUTIVELY
Juventus have secured the Coppa Italia for the 3rd time in a row after beating Lazio 2-0 in the Poppa Italia final...
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