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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Tom Garry

Calls for lifetime ban on Czech coach who filmed female footballers in changing room

FC Slovacko’s home ground, the Mestsky fotbalovy stadion.
FC Slovacko’s home ground, the Mestsky fotbalovy stadion. Photograph: Radovan Stoklasa/Reuters

The Czech player union has called for a lifetime football ban for a coach who avoided jail despite being convicted of secretly filming his female players in the changing rooms and showers with a hidden camera.

Petr Vlachovsky was convicted in May 2025, without a public hearing, and handed a suspended one-year prison sentence and a five-year domestic coaching ban, after being found to have filmed 14 players at FC Slovacko over a four-year period. He was also caught in possession of child sexual abuse material.

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