Victims of a coach who averted jail regardless of secretly filming ladies footballers in altering rooms and showers have known as for him to obtain a worldwide lifetime ban.
Petr Vlachovsky was given a suspended one-year jail sentence and five-year teaching ban within the Czech Republic after being convicted of filming 14 gamers over 4 years.
He coached women and girls at 1. FC Slovacko for nearly 15 years, and beforehand led the Czech Republic Below-19s ladies’s crew.
As soon as voted the perfect ladies’s coach within the Czech Republic, Vlachovsky was arrested in September 2023 after police found the covertly filmed footage on-line.
He was additionally present in possession of kid sexual abuse materials.
Main gamers’ union Fifpro reported that gamers of 1. FC Slovacko solely realized they’d been secretly filmed after the arrest. He was given a one-year suspended jail sentence in Could final 12 months, and not too long ago a gaggle of the victims got here ahead to demand additional motion.
Fifpro – the worldwide consultant organisation for skilled footballers – stated the gamers had been filmed on Vlachovsky’s digicam hidden in a backpack, and the youngest was aged 17.
“As a result of the Czech legal course of and the Soccer Affiliation of the Czech Republic (FACR) administrative proceedings are separate and may run in parallel, the union is difficult the FA to implement a lifetime soccer ban for Vlachovsky and all sexual offenders,” Fifpro stated.
“Fifpro is exploring doable authorized avenues on behalf of gamers to realize a worldwide ban.
“The victims didn’t have the chance to attend a public trial and couldn’t file an enchantment towards what gamers view as extraordinarily lenient sentencing.”
Gamers spoke to Czech media publication Seznam Zpravy, exterior after Vlachovsky’s sentencing, saying it had left them afraid to sleep at evening and anxious about being in public in case they had been being filmed.
FACR chairman David Trunda advised Seznam Zpravy that the affiliation had not traditionally addressed these points and needed to “flip the tide” and pay extra consideration to the protection of youngsters and gamers.
It follows an identical latest case in Austria, the place a former official at SC Rheindorf Altach, exterior acquired a suspended sentence and was fined 1,200 euros (£1,046) for secretly filming members of the membership’s ladies’s crew within the altering room, fitness center and showers. He was ordered to pay every sufferer 625 euros (£544) in compensation.
