The 18-time champions fired the coach after chatting with gamers
A girls’s soccer coach for Ivory Coast staff Africa Sports activities has been fired after accusations of sexually harassing his gamers, the 18-time champions have confirmed.
Toure Makadi labored as an apprentice with the reigning nationwide girls’s champions however was suspended and later expelled from the membership on February 16 amid.
Makadi departed after a journalist shared alleged SMS messages he despatched to gamers providing profession development in alternate for intercourse.
In a press release despatched to AFP and shared by L’Equipe, the membership mentioned that media protection and “digital messages” throughout a number of weeks had alleged that Makadi blackmailed and sexually harassed gamers.
“The statements and digital messages obtained as a part of [an]administrative investigation carried out discreetly with the athletes at the moment level to a excessive chance of the effectiveness of the alleged details,” it mentioned.
“Africa Sports activities of Abidjan strongly condemns such actions, which tarnish the picture of the membership.”
Le président de l'Africa Sports activities a suspendu et exclu le coach Makadi Touré suite à l'enquête de chantage/harcèlement sexuel sur mineures.
Il have interaction aussi son membership à prendre en cost un avocat si les joueuses veulent donner une suite judiciaire à cette affaire.
Maintain the religion ! pic.twitter.com/falPaCBlXK
— Romain Molina (@Romain_Molina) March 6, 2022
Siriki Toure, the top coach of the ladies’s staff, reportedly informed the company that the intern “flirted with a woman” who then refused his advances.
“This case disturbs my staff which misplaced first place,” Toure added.
French journalist Romain Molina revealed alleged SMS messages attributed to the coach on the finish of February, which have been mentioned to have been despatched to some gamers.
Makadi was accused of requesting intercourse with gamers in alternate for assist with their careers.
After the publication of the texts by Molina, Mariam Dao Gabalan, the president of the standardization committee of the Ivorian Soccer Federation (FIF), introduced that an investigation had been opened.
Toure not been formally charged or arrested and the allegations made towards him stay unproven.
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Molina has been on the forefront of reporting alleged circumstances of sexual abuse in African soccer.
In January this yr, he reported how main Gabon soccer official Serge Mombo had been accused of and later arrested for sexually abusing younger gamers and demanding intercourse from them as a prerequisite of having access to the nationwide staff.
Mombo, who was re-elected because the Gabonese high flight’s president in June 2021, was additionally accused of supplying soccer coach Patrick Assoumou Eyi with younger boys to sexually abuse.
Each males deny the unproven claims, which prompted Gabon’s president, Ali Bongo, to explain allegations of widespread sexual abuse within the nation as a “very critical matter”.
In response, Bongo’s authorities has introduced judicial investigation into alleged sexual abuse of kids and younger folks in Gabonese sports activities shall be held.
