This article contains adult content that may be inappropriate for minors. Please confirm that you are 18 years or older to continue. This article contains images or details that some readers may find disturbing. Reader discretion is advised. Petr Vlachovsky, former coach of the women's team at Slovácko, was convicted of secretly filming his athletes and possession of child sexual abuse material, but his prison sentence was suspended. The players are now fighting for the coach to be banned from the sport. A group of players from Slovácko, a top-division women's team in Czechia, demands exemplary punishment for the coach who filmed them in the locker rooms for four years. Petr Vlachovsky was convicted, but Czech justice suspended the prison sentence, imposing only a five-year coaching ban in the country. The case was discovered in 2023, culminating in Vlachovsky's arrest in September of that year. The athletes only learned they had been victims of illicit recordings in the locker rooms and bathrooms when the police found the material circulating on the Internet. The coach used a hidden microcamera in a backpack to film 14 players, the youngest of whom was only 17 years old. Kristyna Janku, one of the players from Slovácko, expressed her outrage to the Czech newspaper Seznam Zpravy, describing the psychological impact on the athletes. "Some of my teammates started to worry that someone was watching them, even through the window. They had trouble sleeping, some even vomited," she reported. The player considers the sentence an affront. "It's a joke; we all feel the same. But I was warned in advance that we shouldn't expect anything special due to Czech laws, because child pornography or sexual abuse is not classified as serious crimes," she added. In May 2024, the case returned to court, but without a public hearing. The presiding judge decided to release the coach and change the sanction to a five-year ban on practicing his profession in the country. The sentence, which did not allow for appeal, imposes no restrictions on his work abroad. Dissatisfied, the victims joined the Czech Republic Professional Players Association (CAFH) to take the case to the Czech Football Federation (FACR). The goal is to achieve, through the federation's disciplinary procedures, a lifetime ban for Vlachovsky and other sexual offenders in football. The group of athletes also sought support from FIFPRO, the global players' union, in order to request FIFA to impose a global ban on Petr Vlachovsky, preventing him from coaching anywhere in the world. Petr Vlachovsky had been associated with Slovácko since 2018, where he held various technical roles at different levels. He was even recognized as the best women's football coach in Czechia and coached the national women's under-19 team. A suspended prison sentence with only a domestic coaching ban is simply not enough. Players at 1. FC Slovacko – a top-division women's club in Czechia – were secretly filmed in their changing room for four years by their coach. Petr Vlachovsky has avoided prison and been banned…
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