{"id":312500,"date":"2011-03-15T23:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/15\/chelsea-set-to-sign-sao-paulo-wonderkid-lucas-piazon-report\/"},"modified":"2011-03-15T23:34:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T23:34:00","slug":"chelsea-set-to-sign-sao-paulo-wonderkid-lucas-piazon-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/15\/chelsea-set-to-sign-sao-paulo-wonderkid-lucas-piazon-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea set to sign Sao Paulo wonderkid Lucas Piazon &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h4>15 Mar 2011 23:34:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"66.3255572836\">\n<div>\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lucas Piazon - Sao Paulo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/b04da3c6122578_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lucas Piazon &#8211; Sao Paulo<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"31.7089255259\"><\/p>\n<p>        Reports from Brazilian media suggest that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/96\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a> are ready to complete a big-money transfer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/brazil\/500\/s%C3%A3o-paulo\">Sao Paulo<\/a> starlet Lucas Piazon, before the 17-year-old has even played a senior game in his home country. <\/p>\n<p>Piazon &#8211; not to be confused with older Tricolor prospect Lucas who shone with Neymar in the South American Under-20 Championships last month &#8211; only turned 17 at the turn of the year and is yet to make an official appearance for his club. <\/p>\n<p>He is widely considered, however, as one of the most promising youngsters in Brazil at the moment, and is currently representing his nation at the continental Under-17s tournament, where he made a goalscoring debut in a 4-3 victory over Venezuela. <\/p>\n<p>This follows a sparkling turn in the 2009 Under-15 version of the tournament, where the prodigy finished top scorer with 10 goals.<\/p>\n<p><em>Globoesporte <\/em>report that Chelsea are on the verge of completing a deal which would see the youngster move to London on turning 18 at the end of 2011. <\/p>\n<p>Piazon is expected to put pen to paper on a transfer worth \u20ac7.5million (\u00a36.5m) when he returns from the South American Championships in roughly a month. 80% of the fee would go to Sao Paulo, and the remaining 20% to his family and agent for their share in his contract rights. <\/p>\n<p>The forward had been negotiating with Italian giants Juventus at the start of the year despite interest from the English club, but a deal fell through due to a failure to agree personal terms. <\/p>\n<p>His talents on the ball and speed have led to comparisons with Kaka in Brazil, although Piazon prefers to play further up the field as a second striker rather than as a traditional No.10. <\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/b04da3c6122578_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/03\/15\/2396379\/chelsea-set-to-sign-sao-paulo-wonderkid-lucas-piazon-report\" title=\"Chelsea set to sign Sao Paulo wonderkid Lucas Piazon - report\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chelsea set to sign Sao Paulo wonderkid Lucas Piazon &#8211; report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 15 Mar 2011 23:34:00 Lucas Piazon &#8211; Sao Paulo Related Links Teams Reports from Brazilian media suggest that Chelsea are ready to complete a big-money transfer for Sao Paulo starlet Lucas Piazon, before the 17-year-old has even played a senior game in his home country. Piazon &#8211; not to be confused with older Tricolor prospect Lucas who shone with Neymar in the South American Under-20 Championships last month &#8211; only turned 17 at the turn of the year and is yet to make an official appearance for his club. He is widely considered, however, as one of the most promising youngsters in Brazil at the moment, and is currently representing his nation at the continental Under-17s tournament, where he made a goalscoring debut in a 4-3 victory over Venezuela<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chelsea set to sign Sao Paulo wonderkid Lucas Piazon - report - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/15\/chelsea-set-to-sign-sao-paulo-wonderkid-lucas-piazon-report\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Chelsea set to sign Sao Paulo wonderkid Lucas Piazon - report - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"15 Mar 2011 23:34:00 Lucas Piazon - Sao Paulo Related Links Teams Reports from Brazilian media suggest that Chelsea are ready to complete a big-money transfer for Sao Paulo starlet Lucas Piazon, before the 17-year-old has even played a senior game in his home country. 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