New Zealand police have dismissed a rape allegation against Ryan Mendes, the Cape Verde football captain, and have charged the woman who made the claim with making a false statement, The Guardian reported.
The report, credited to the Associated Press, said Detective Inspector Scott Beard stated on Friday that the claim that a sexual assault occurred at an Auckland hotel had been dismissed. The allegation concerned an incident said to have taken place after a football friendly in March.
The Guardian's headline states that Mendes was cleared of the allegation and that the woman was charged with a "false statement." New Zealand police are the agency that made the decision, according to the summary.
The material available for this story does not give the year of the friendly, the opposing team, the location of the match, or the details of the complaint.
The summary ends in the middle of a sentence describing the claim, so the rest of Beard's statement, any reasons given for the decision, and the legal basis for the charge against the woman are not included.
The Guardian summary does not say whether Mendes or the woman has commented, and no other news outlet's report on the matter was available for comparison.
The Associated Press is credited as the author of the underlying report, and the account here rests entirely on The Guardian's summary of that report.