Alves and Robinho 'have to pay for what they did', insists ex-Brazil teammate

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.

'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 for what they did. And let it serve as a lesson so that others do not do it. This is very serious.'

Melo, currently 40 and playing for Fluminense in Brazil, played for the the Brazilian national team between 2009 and 2010, making 22 appearances, including in the 2010 World Cup.

Playing for Juventus at the time, Melo travelled to the tournament in South Africa as part of a 23-man squad that also included Alves and Robinho.

He has also played for the likes of Galatasaray and Inter Milan in his career.

Alves, meanwhile, posted bail despite his lawyer, Ines Guardiola last year claiming her client