The world of professional women's soccer is turned upside down after a shocking report that a prominent male coach is accused of coercing players into having sex. The top lead canceled all of its games for this weekend, and now soccer's international governing body is investigating. There's been ongoing abuse in the National Women's Soccer League, of which US Soccer was a manager for a number of years since it was founded. And there were people in US Soccer who have an alleged degree of culpability here in ignoring or minimalizing, trivializing, perhaps even enabling some of the abuse just through their failure to act.
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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