don't mean to hype the book, but it's just amazing how bad some female soccer players have it. If this one's true, I wish I could just smack that Russian coach! Thankly this story is 5 years old, hopefully times have changed! https://www.si.com/soccer/2017/10/2...utm_medium=social&xid=socialflow_twitter_si""
This is disgusting. I wish that mafia-boss of a coach would be arrested and detained but I am afraid this will never happen in today's Russia. This kind of people tarnishes and contaminates women's soccer, and the whole world to boot. They make this world a worse place. No young woman should ever endure what those athletes had to suffer. I am not as optimistic as you are, @hotjam2, so I am not persuaded that in 5 years something has changed. But what I think is: if in Russia there is no hope to nail this scoundrel, couldn't there be at least an investigation from UEFA? What's been written in the book isn't enough to at least open an antidoping investigation for what concerns international matches?
These kind of things, instead, make world a better place. And heaven knows we need that. Thanks for a very appropriate reply to this thread, @Lechus7!
The title of this thread is a bit odd to me, because sadly, I don't find the story unbelievable. It rings all too true. On another note, I do own the book that this excerpt comes from, and its worth some hype. Well-written and some excellent stories, many positive ones in addition to the one highlighted. For example, the book also has a chapter on Allie Long playing in a men's indoor league to reach the level she's at, Nadia Nadim's story of being a refugee, a story about the France WNT, the story of Josephine (Alinco) Chukwononye's rise from a slum in Nigeria to playing for the WNT, plus others. Really the stories are international, and worth a read. Honestly, I didn't want the book to end; I would have loved to read more stories about players that I know little, if anything, about.
From cancer diagnosis to PFA Team of the Year in five months https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/44143064
I can easily believe Foxhoven's ordeal in Russian soccer occcurred as told. As mentioned in the excerpt, it's an ideal set-up for money laundering. As such, no need for a real coach who understands how to prepare a football team. All that is needed is someone who can play the part and be trusted to keep his mouth shut. FIFA should definitely investigate (especially since it knows the ins and outs of money laundering ), but the chances of that happening are one in a quadrillion.
sad story of abuse out of Canada, though the events are from more than ten years ago, still wouldn't think it would come from our neighbors from up north as we like to think of them usually as a shinning beacon of political correctness. The coach in question was Bob Biralda A Horrific Canadian Soccer Story – The Story No One Wants to Listen To, But Everyone Needs to Hear – Essays on Life