A professional footballer suggested a boozy game of truth or dare with a female fan before she allegedly "blacked out" and awoke to him forcibly raping her, a jury has heard.
Ruon Tongyik, 28, has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting the woman in his Sydney home on a November afternoon in 2018.
Prosecutors allege the then-injured Western Sydney Wanderers player and the woman had consensual sex before a friend of Tongyik arrived at the house.
Sitting on a lounge, the trio then played truth or dare and the dares allegedly became "increasingly sexualised in nature".
The woman is expected to tell the Sydney District Court jury she felt uncomfortable about performing the dares and instead took shots of liquor.
"It is the crown case that (the woman) became intoxicated to the point of blacking out," prosecutor Emma Curran said on Wednesday.
When she came to, the woman allegedly found herself naked, standing over a bed with her head being held as the two men had sex with her.
She is expected to say she could not tell which man was which, but she recalled they swapped positions at some point.
"It's the crown case that the complainant was not capable of consenting to any of the acts of sexual intercourse due to her intoxication and the accused men knew she was not consenting," Ms Curran said.
The incident allegedly ended with the woman in tears, the bed breaking and the men laughing.
Tongyik and his co-accused, school friend Mardochee "Doch" Manirakiza, dispute the woman's account, including that the trio were concurrently involved in sex at any point in the home.
Although the woman made immediate claims that she was raped to a friend and took contemporary images of the unit, she did not make a report to police until 2021, when Tongyik was chosen to represent Australia at the Tokyo Olympics.
"Love finding out my rapist has been selected by Australia even after he laughed about the incident on social media," the woman posted to Twitter.
Football Australia later interviewed Tongyik and dropped him from the national squad.
Tongyik, through lawyers, later told the woman to stop making public statements about the afternoon in the unit, leading her to approach police.
The Western Sydney Wanderers central defender, whose previous club stints took him to Melbourne City and Central Coast Mariners, does not dispute that he met the woman after she began following him on Instagram in 2017.
Jurors are expected to view Manirakiza's police interview in which the man, who had no criminal history, "tries his very best to recount each and every detail", his lawyer said.
"He tells the police it was her idea (to play truth or dare) because she said they were boring and watching TV – football," barrister Louise Jardim said.
The trial before Judge Lara Gallagher is expected to run three to four weeks.
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