{"id":338689,"date":"2011-03-25T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/25\/official-chelsea-confirm-the-signing-of-sao-paulo-midfielder-lucas-piazon\/"},"modified":"2011-03-25T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T17:06:00","slug":"official-chelsea-confirm-the-signing-of-sao-paulo-midfielder-lucas-piazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/25\/official-chelsea-confirm-the-signing-of-sao-paulo-midfielder-lucas-piazon\/","title":{"rendered":"OFFICIAL: Chelsea confirm the signing of Sao Paulo midfielder Lucas Piazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Mike Allen<\/h3>\n<h4>25 Mar 2011 17:06:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"60.0858433735\">\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<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"21.4744027304\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/96\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a> have completed a deal to bring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/brazil\/500\/s%C3%A3o-paulo\">Sao Paulo<\/a> midfielder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/brazil\/52761\/lucas-piaz%C3%B3n\">Lucas Piazon<\/a> to the club.<\/p>\n<p>Piazon has signed a pre-contract agreement with the current Premier League champions after the two clubs reached an agreement over the transfer of the player.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old will join Chelsea in January 2012 on a long-term contract and will continue to represent Sao Paulo until then.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian joined Sao Paulo in 2003 and is highly regarded in his homeland as one of the brightest young prospects, drawing comparisons to Real Madrid star Kaka.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently representing Brazil in the South American Under-17 Championships and finished top scorer in the 2009 Under-15 Championships with 10 goals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The player will make the switch to the Premier League having played in England once before, in an under-15 competition held at Old Trafford in which he was named player of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker was believed to be close to sealing a move to Juventus and had even trained with the Serie A club in January before Chelsea wrapped up the signing.<\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/3b4e10aebeacon.dll_509.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/03\/25\/2411134\/official-chelsea-confirm-the-signing-of-sao-paulo-midfielder\" title=\"OFFICIAL: Chelsea confirm the signing of Sao Paulo midfielder Lucas Piazon\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OFFICIAL: Chelsea confirm the signing of Sao Paulo midfielder Lucas Piazon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Mike Allen 25 Mar 2011 17:06:00 Lucas Piazon &#8211; Sao Paulo Related Links Teams Players Chelsea have completed a deal to bring Sao Paulo midfielder Lucas Piazon to the club. Piazon has signed a pre-contract agreement with the current Premier League champions after the two clubs reached an agreement over the transfer of the player. The 17-year-old will join Chelsea in January 2012 on a long-term contract and will continue to represent Sao Paulo until then<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-338689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>OFFICIAL: Chelsea confirm the signing of Sao Paulo midfielder Lucas Piazon - 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\/25\/official-chelsea-confirm-the-signing-of-sao-paulo-midfielder-lucas-piazon\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"OFFICIAL: Chelsea confirm the signing of Sao Paulo midfielder Lucas Piazon - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Mike Allen 25 Mar 2011 17:06:00 Lucas Piazon - Sao Paulo Related Links Teams Players Chelsea have completed a deal to bring Sao Paulo midfielder Lucas Piazon to the club. 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