Bruce Mwape has been singled out by members of the African squad on the eve of his World Cup debut in Australia and New Zealand 2023.
Zambia’s women’s team are going through complex times ahead of the 2023 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. One of the players of the African team has denounced her coach, Bruce Mwape, for sexually abusing footballers with the complicity of the country’s FA .
The complaint was made public by the British newspaper The Guardian. In the post, one of the athletes claims that “if he wants to sleep with someone, you have to say yes. It’s normal that the coach sleeps with the players of our team ”.
In turn, another source close to the Zambian team assures that the footballers have received threats in order to remain silent.
“They are threatened with sanctions if they dare to say anything. The Federation (of Zambia) turns a blind eye because the women have had good results. This is his way of showing success and a good image with the public and the authorities. But behind the scenes it’s very ugly they added.
After these statements, the British newspaper attempted to contact the coach with no positive response and they confronted the Football Federation of Zambia (FAZ), who responded to the complaints with a statement stating that “Although we have no record of any formal complaints from anyone regarding these accusations, we consider them to be very serious and have opened an investigation into them. says federation general secretary Adrian Kashala in the newsletter.
He adds that “we will work with the Zambia Police Service and other relevant stakeholders to resolve this issue ”.
On the other hand, the complaints also point to Kaluba Kangwac, coach of the under-17 team and senior leaders of the Federation for their complicity.
After all this, the president of the FAZ, Andrew Kamanga, explained that they will leave the matter to the police to carry out the corresponding investigation.
“We prefer that an independent body like FIFA, which has the capacity to do this, can manage the requests. We will certainly take sanctions; we have enough rules and regulations in football that we can handle “, said the official.
Ten days before the start of the World Cup, Zambia are preparing to make their debut in Group C with Costa Rica, Spain and Japan.
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