Women's Soccer Coach Paul Riley

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Paul Riley is a long-time women's soccer coach. Sinead Farley, one of his players there, later alleged that he sexually coerced her. Another player at the Portland thorns alleges that Paul sexually harassed her. He Holly is alleged to have coerced harassed, assaulted a player in Louisville.

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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