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Former Barcelona and Brazil defender Daniel Alves is to be conditionally released from jail after he paid bail of €1 million ($1.08 million), a spokesperson for the Spanish judiciary told dpa on Monday. Last month, Alves was sentenced to four years and six months in prison by a Spanish court for sexual assault. He was found guilty of assaulting a woman in the bathroom of an upscale Barcelona nightclub on New Year’s Eve in 2022 and has been in custody since being arrested for the offence in January 2023. But last week, the Spanish court ruled that Alves could be conditionally released from jail…

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