Yates: We raise kids in this system where coaches displace all this awful misbehavior onto the kids. She says players are expected to take some kind of life lesson from it and grow as people. Yates: I don't think anybody should have to be belittled or even physically abused at their job no matter what the job is.
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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