Again and again. Women's pro soccer players are just the latest to deal with abuse

[Jilly_in_VA]

One more U.S. soccer match to go for Carli Lloyd.

The popular, 39-year-old veteran of the women's national team will play her final game in a U.S. uniform next Tuesday in Minnesota, in a so-called friendly against South Korea. The two teams played to a scoreless draw Thursday in Kansas City – a crowd of more than 18,000 cheered Lloyd as she came on as second-half substitute.

The celebration, though, comes at a tumultuous time.

The country's top women's pro soccer league, the NWSL, is still reeling from a scandal involving multiple coaches and alleged abusive behavior toward players.

And it has re-focused attention on an all-too-familiar problem: female athletes throughout sports experiencing abuse and harassment.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/23/1048458620/again-and-again-womens-pro-soccer-players-just-the-latest-to-deal-with-abuse

[crickets]

1. K&R for visibility.

[malaise]

2. The sad truth is abuse takes place across the entire sphere of sports

and male athletes are also victims

[mopinko]

3. ya know, i never pushed my kids to be in any kind of activity like this.

feel like anywhere there are kids, there are pedos.
for all the good sports programs, etc do some kids, i was just not gonna put them in a situation like that. had 1 kid who played baseball, but his dad was the coach.
didnt forbid it, except gymnastics. drew the line on activities where a kid ends up in a wheelchair so easily. i was just glad no one was that interested.

it's not just sports, tho. it's anything.
we have a pretty renowned children's choir here. my youngest tried out. the director gave off such a creepy vibe that fae could feel it at 6. i would have loved that for faer. fae has a lovely voice.
the choir traveled a lot. i would have had to be around, and involved. and i couldnt do that at the time. i was glad it didnt come about.