The lawyer for a Brazilian soccer player wanted on sexual assault allegations after last summer’s Pan Am Games in Toronto says the charge against his client has been dropped.

Brian Greenspan says prosecutors dismissed the charge against Lucas Domingues Piazon, 21, on Tuesday morning because there was no reasonable prospect of conviction.

He says Toronto police knew the dismissal was inevitable and were wrong to tarnish the reputation of an international soccer star.

Greenspan says Piazon, who plays for Reading — in England’s second highest professional soccer league — on loan from Chelsea, has lived “under a cloud of global suspicion” since the Oct. 29 news conference announcing the charge.

Toronto police at the time announced that warrants had been issued for Piazon and Andrey Da Silva Ventura, 22, who both played for the Brazilian national soccer team in the Pan Am Games.

Piazon was sought on an Ontario warrant, meaning he could be arrested if he returned to the province. Ventura, currently still playing in Brazil, would have to go through a lengthy process to be returned to Canada to face charges since there is no extradition treaty with that country.

Police confirmed Tuesday the charge against Piazon had been dropped but said the one against Ventura was still outstanding.

Asked about Greenspan’s allegations that police proceeded with the charges knowing the case would not go to trial, police spokesman Mark Pugash would only say the force would “look into the matter.”

Both involved an alleged sexual assault against a 21-year-old woman, who police said met the two athletes at a popular downtown spot. Police said they returned to a private home and the victim was allegedly sexually assaulted on July 25 after she had fallen asleep.

The soccer players were not the only Brazilian athletes accused of sex crimes while taking part in the Pan Am Games.

Police also have an active warrant out for Thye Mattos Ventura Bezerra, a 27-year-old water polo player accused of committing a similar offence on July 16. Police allege Bezerra sexually assaulted a 22-year-old woman as she slept in the bedroom of her downtown apartment.