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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Eui-jin = A leader who was recently appointed as the coach of a youth soccer team and taught high school players for several months was found to be an unfit person who had committed sexual misconduct in the past.
According to reports from Yonhap News on the 23rd, a local youth club team selected Mr. A, who has a history of sexual misconduct, as a candidate for high school coach around May, and later appointed him to lead the team.
Mr. A was found guilty of forcibly molesting three players while leading a women’s soccer team at a school in the metropolitan area and was sentenced to two years and six months in prison and three years of probation by the court in December 2020.
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According to the Korea Football Association regulations, Mr. A is not recognized as a leader. If you are found guilty of sexual harassment and sentenced, in principle, the Football Association will not accept you as a leader.
The association’s registration regulations state that a leader cannot be registered if he or she has committed sexual violence against a minor.
It is known that this club team had difficulty finding the right person, but when Mr. A’s probation period ended, he was offered the position of manager.
As of April 30, 2021, when the prosecution’s appeal that the punishment was ‘weak’ was dismissed and the sentence was confirmed, more than three years have passed and the probation period has ended.
Accordingly, it is understood that both the club and Mr. A, who believed that the legal issue had been resolved, signed a contract to appoint a manager without being aware of the association’s registration regulations.
Afterwards, the local soccer association, Korea Women’s Soccer Federation, and Korea Soccer Association all went through the registration process without identifying Mr. A’s history of sexual misconduct.
When the Yonhap News coverage began, Mr. A, who belatedly learned of his disqualification, announced his intention to resign to the club, and related organizations began to investigate the facts.
These agencies explained that ‘administrative blind spots’ like this one appear because they cannot verify personal information such as criminal history.
The common position of these organizations is that it is difficult to recognize wrongdoing unless it is known through news reports or the crime is publicized and disciplined.
The Football Association and the Women’s Football Federation have declared a ‘zero tolerance response’ to sexual violence issues.
These sports organizations began investigating on-site conditions in early 2019 after it became known that the leader of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power in Gyeongju, a women’s professional soccer WK league, left the team in disgrace after it was revealed that he had molested a member of the team.
Afterwards, the two organizations promised to eradicate sexual violence by signing a ‘business agreement to promote gender equality in soccer’ with the Korean Counseling Association.
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2024/10/23 15:43 Sent
