Spanish prosecutors have requested a nine-year prison sentence for Álvaro Aguado, a 28-year-old former player for RCD Espanyol (a professional football club in Barcelona), accused of sexually assaulting a female club employee in the bathroom of a Barcelona nightclub in June 2024. According to the prosecution's filing, the assault occurred in the early hours of 24 June at the Opium nightclub during a party celebrating the team's promotion to Spain's top football division, La Liga, with the victim stating she was in a state of shock and explicitly asked Aguado to stop. Prosecutors are also seeking €65,000 in compensation for the victim for moral damages and psychological harm; Aguado, who denies the assault and claims the encounter was consensual, was not renewed by the club in June 2025.