Former Red Stars coach Rory Dames was accused by former youth players of sexual, verbal and emotional misconduct in the 1990s and 2000s in an exhaustive report published Tuesday by the Washington Post's Molly Hensley-Clancy.
Among the allegations reported are that Dames cultivated an inappropriate relationship with a player who was 14; more than a dozen former youth players saying he was verbally and emotionally abusive toward them as teenagers; and allegations of physical abuse, including a girl saying in a 1998 police report that Dames pinched her when she refused to give him a massage and a boy who said Dames punched him in the stomach.
Dames resigned in mid-November, hours before multiple allegations of emotional and verbal abuse were published about him. His resignation also came less than 48 hours after leading the Red Stars into the NWSL championship, where they lost to the Spirit.
