Dani Alves must pay $2.2 million to Pumas UNAM after the Court of Arbitration for Sport's (CAS) ruling on the termination of his contract in 2023.

The Mexican team won its appeal to the CAS, after a FIFA decision that favored the former Brazilian soccer player.

Club Universidad Nacional AC was demanding up to $5 million dollars free of withholding and encumbrance plus the reimbursement of $1.12 million dollars for the second image rights payment that the Liga MX team made to the former Barcelona player.

This claim was made after Alves received a legal accusation of sexual abuse in Spain.

“Instead, sentence Mr. Daniel Alves da Silva to pay Club Universidad Nacional, AC the sum of USD 2,250,000 (two million two hundred fifty thousand US dollars) plus an interest of 5% per year,” states the text released by the CAS.

CAS lowers the amount that Pumas wanted to receive

The CAS granted the appeal to Pumas, but argued that the figure of $5 million dollars that they were asking for Dani Alves was disproportionate.

“The total value of the employment contract was $300,000, while the The termination compensation was USD $5,000,000: almost 17 times the value of the contract. And this disproportion increases to 33 times if we analyze the moment in which the breach of contract declared by the FIFA CRD occurred,” the organization explains.

“The total value of both contracts is $2,550,000, from which must be subtracted the amount not paid to the player ($150,000), giving a total amount of $2,400,000.

Dani Alves had been convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in a nightclub in Spain, but after several months it was appealed.