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Using a miniature camera hidden in his backpack, a Czech football coach recorded 15 women players, the youngest aged 17, showering and changing in locker rooms over a four-year period.
Some players vomited when they found out, some needed to leave the club, and others sought psychological help.
One of them, Kristyna Janku, is speaking out because, despite getting a suspended one-year prison sentence and a five-year ban from coaching in the Czech Republic, Petr Vlachovsky could walk into a coaching job anywhere else in the world.
“If there is a chance to make football safer for women and younger girls, I want to try to do something,” she says. “Don’t let him coach again.”
“You never think something like that can happen,” Janku, who spent 13 seasons at 1. FC Slovacko, tells The Athletic via a video call.
“When I saw the videotapes, he was really thinking about what he was doing. I could tell he was really good at it. It was not just by accident. He was professional about football. When I saw the tapes, I could tell he was professional about this, too.”