The results of a year-long investigation was issued this week that outlines allegations of verbal, physical, even sexual abuse within the National Women's Soccer League. This is all coming out of a report generated by Sally Q Yates, who was the former acting attorney general of the US. They interviewed over 200 people, like players, staff, coaches, administrators, past and present. And they reviewed something like 89,000 documents, which they culled down from over a million documents provided by US Soccer.
Allegations of misconduct have rocked US women’s soccer for the last year. The Athletic’s Steph Yang breaks down a new report on the degree to which league officials ignored complaints and protected abusers.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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