Chelsea footballer Lucas Piazon wanted in Canada after woman sexually assaulted

Wanted: Canadian police have issued an arrest warrant for Chelsea player Lucas Piazon
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Tom Marshall29 October 2015
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A Chelsea footballer is wanted by Canadian police after a young woman was sexually assaulted in Toronto.

Police in the city have released an arrest warrant for Brazilian forward Lucas Piazon, 21 - who is currently on loan from the west London team at Reading - and his countryman Andrey Ventura, 22.

The pair are alleged to have sexually assaulted a 20-year-old woman after meeting her and a friend at a bar in Toronto on June 26.

Inspector Joanna Beavens-Desjardins said the attack happened after they went back to the woman’s home and she had fallen asleep.

Arrest warrant: Pictures of the two players released by police in Toronto
Toronto Police

She said: “They socialised with the victim and accompanied the two women to a Toronto residence.

“The victim, once she arrived at home, went to sleep.

“They entered her bedroom and sexually assaulted her.

"She awoke and both of them left the residence.”

Piazon, who moved to Chelsea as a youth player in 2011, has scored two goals for Reading in the Championship this season, while Ventura plays as a goalkeeper for Brazilian club Botafogo.

The pair were in Canada for the Pan Am Games held in Toronto in the summer, where they represented Brazil’s under-23 national team.

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