THINGS YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT DANI ALVES

Its official! DANI ALVES is leaving Barcelona.

FC Barcelona sporting director Robert Fernandez has confirmed that Dani Alves will leave the club.

The Brazilian full-back stunned the double winners by agreeing a three-year deal with Juventus, a move that he can complete for free after inserting a break clause into his new contract signed last summer.

“Alves has decided to leave us,” said Fernandez in his end-of-season press conference.
"Dani is fantastic but he's leaving because of his own decision and we have got to respect that.“It’s a very personal decision that we accept and there’s nothing more to say.”

 

Here you have Dani Alves' best quotes in Barcelona:

"Its difficult to get so many stars together and for them all to satay humble, which is why we've got a team to take your hat off to."
 

"I'm a team player, at Barcelona we all think like that and that's the key to our success."
 

"For those who are genuinely passionate about football, Barca are worthy of admiration."
 

"When people thought we couldn't, we've done it again. That's the kind of footballing stability you dream of having in your career."

"If I think something whether it'll go down well or badly, I'll always say it. I'm a free man and free to give my opinion too."
 

Alves stats in Barcelona:

Matches played:  343     

Goals : 20
Total started: 321     

Games selected: 364
Sub: 43    

Minutes played: 27487
Came on: 22     

Assists: 74
 

Discipline

Yellow Card: 85     

Red Card: 4
 

Goals with:
Right Foot: 14     

Left Foot     -
Header: 2     

Other     -
Open Play: 12     

Cross: 1
Free Kick: 1     

Direct Free Kick: 1
Throw In     -     

Penalty     -
Corner: 1     

Other     -
 

Goals from:
Left field: 7     

Centre field: 3
Right field: 6     

Other     -
6 yrds: 12     

18 yrds: 1
18 yrds plus: 1     

Other: 1

Record in Barcelona:

Barcelona

    La Liga: 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2015-16
    Copa del Rey: 2008–09, 2011–12, 2014–15, 2015–16
    Supercopa de España: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013
    UEFA Champions League: 2008–09, 2010–11, 2014–15
    UEFA Super Cup: 2009, 2011, 2015
    FIFA Club World Cup: 2009, 2011, 2015


UEFA Team of the Year: 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015
ESM Team of the Year: 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
La Liga Team of the Year: 2014–15

Record in La Liga:
161 matches
-146 starts
-12 goals
-51 assists

Titles Won:
3 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
6 LA LIGA
4 COPA DEL REY
5 SPANISH SUPER CUP
4 CLUB WORLD CUP
3 UEFA SUPER CUP

FACTS:

 

DEFENDERS WITH MOST TROPHIES:

Dani Alves (31)
Gerard Pique  (25) 

Cafú (24)
Paolo Maldini (23)
Gary Neville (22)

ALVES HOLDS THE RECORD OF THE BRAZILIAN PLAYER WITH MOST TROPHIES SURPASSING PELE.

THE THIRD PLAYER IN LA LIGA HISTORY WITH 100 ASSISTS AFTER LUIS FIGO (105) AND MESSI (127).
 

IT WOULD BE SURPRISING TO KNOW THAT ALVES HAS ASSISTED MORE OF MESSI'S GOAL (37) THAN ANY OTHER BARCA PLAYER.

Barcelona and of course, Lionel Messi, Dani's chief beneficiary would miss what would be the best right back in the club's football history and one of the best to grace his position in world football.

Indeed a GENIUS!