'Trying to ruin my career': soccer star on rape claim

An A-League player whose Olympic dreams were dashed by a rape claim told a mate the alleged victim was trying to ruin his career.

Ruon Tongyik is facing a jury trial after pleading not guilty to sexually assaulting the woman in his Sydney home in 2018.

The woman, an A-League fan, allegedly "blacked out" after a drinking game and awoke to Tongyik and his friend Mardochee "Doch" Manirakiza forcibly raping her.

Jurors on Thursday were played an intercepted phone call between Tonyik and Manirakiza in which the Western Sydney Wanderers defender said the claim was stopping his selection for the Socceroos or Olyroos.

"I think she is trying to ruin my career," Tonyik said in the 2022 call.

"And to make matters worse, she is saying we did it without her saying yes to things."

The woman posted publicly about Tongyik being "my rapist" after he was chosen to represent Australia at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.

A subsequent Football Australia investigation led to him being dropped from the side.

"That s*** ruined my chance of going to the Olympics ... it's crazy, man," the former Melbourne City and Central Coast player told his friend in the taped call.

Both men said the woman suggested playing "truth or dare", while Manirakiza denied the men "made the first move".

They agreed the woman engaged in one consensual sexual act with each of them separately - one with Manirakiza in a bedroom and then with Tongyik in the lounge.

"No one forced her into the room," Manirakiza said in the call.

"If it was rape, why would I leave the door open? The front window was open too. I don't understand."

Prosecutors allege the then-injured Western Sydney Wanderers player and the woman had consensual sex and then suggested a boozy game of "truth or dare" when Manirakiza arrived.

The game began increasingly sexualised and the woman took a series of shots to avoid acting on dares, blacked out and then found herself in the bedroom being raped.

She was incapable of consenting and the men knew that she was not consenting, the prosecution alleges.

In a second recording played to the jury on Thursday, Tongyik was questioned by Football Australia officials about messages between him and the woman attached to her 2021 "my rapist" tweet.

In one, the woman said: "You made me do how many shots before you didn't listen to me say no."

"Do you recall her saying no?" one of the officials said.

"I don't recall her saying that ... (the game) was going smooth, there was no interruption," Tongyik replied.

Tongyik and Manirakiza have each pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual intercourse without consent.

The trial in Sydney's Downing Centre District Court continues.

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