10 phrases from Pique: his split from Shakira, the Dani Alves affair and the future of Lionel Messi

In the midst of investigations and the collection of evidence on the guilt or not of Dani Alves who is accused of sexually abusing a woman at Barcelona’s Sutton nightclub in late 2022, the former footballer Gerard pricks spoke on the subject in an interview with journalist Jordi Basté, director and presenter of the program El Mon de Race 1.

“It’s a very complicated file because I know him and I appreciate him”were the former Catalan defender’s first words about his friend, with whom he shared several seasons on the pitch as a Barça player.

“It’s very fucked up for everyone, for him and for those of us who were his teammates. Justice has to go his way. I want to wait what the judge saysand from there, first and foremost assist the victim in the process,” he added.

Regarding his arrest on January 20, Pique said that “It’s a very complicated thing. When you’re a locker room partner, you share everything. You see him playing in the locker room and you would never think about it. It seems to be and you are left in a state of “shock” because you are not expecting it. It’s a freehand slap for everyone, a slap in the face of reality. You think ‘how could this happen?’ If that’s the case and it happened, I think you have to be very tough. With him and with all those who do something like that”.

“If it is true that it happened, You have to be very hard with him and with everyone. I am totally against these people who do not defend ‘yes is yes’ or ‘no is no’, we must respect each other, ”he said.

Finally, he assured that “I would be inflexible and very tough, in case it was so”, However, he added: “Until they tell me he did it and there is evidence… well, I think we have to wait. The easiest way today is to say that he is already guilty and that he is worth it.”

“I want to wait. Wait what the judge says. And if the judge thinks it’s one thing or the other, then you have to comply with it and from there, help the victim first and foremost in the process. I think we have to respect each other, men and women. At the end of the day, what we want is to live in a world where these things don’t happen,” he said.

Beyond the fact that the former Barcelona and PSG winger maintains his innocence, his defense hinges on the fact that had sex with the complainant in the bathroom of the nightclub, but alleges that they were consensual.

Regarding the case, and following the deadlines set by the Spanish courts, the trial would take place at the end of this year, during which the Brazilian would face “a sentence between 4 and 12 years in prison” if the prosecution manages to prove “a crime of sexual assault with penetration of article 179 of the Penal Code”.

In the same interview, the former captain blaugrana He also spoke about Lionel Messi and his future: “Only he knows. He won the World Cup which was the big dream he had and now no one can doubt that he is the best in history. What he decides will belong to him, where he will find his happiness and his competitiveness”.

“If you want to keep competing, maybe Barça is in your plans, If you want to stop competing at this level, you might as well go to MLSIt would be very brutal, for everything he made us feel, if Messi played for Barca again,” he admitted.

Finally, he was asked about Shakira’s theme music with Bizarrap which went around the world in minutes: “I think people have a responsibility, especially those of us who are parents, to try to protect our children. Everyone makes the decisions they consider. I just want my kids to be okay.”

“I’ve always had a really close relationship with my kids and I like them to be involved in things having a good time. Everyone makes the decisions they think are best, I sort of do the forms and I try to do it in the best possible way. In class, you don’t get a lesson on how you can be a better or worse parent. I’m fine and I want to keep doing things,” he concluded.

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