

Petr Vlachovsky was first convicted in May 2025Five-year domestic coaching ban seen as too lenientUefa has handed a lifetime ban from all football-related activity to Petr Vlachovsky, the Czech coach who used a hidden camera to secretly film his female players in their changing rooms. Vlachovsky was convicted in May 2025, having been found to have filmed 14 players at FC Slovacko over a four-year period, and given a suspended one-year prison sentence and a five-year domestic coaching ban, which prompted calls from the Czech players’ union for his punishment to be broadened.On Tuesday, European football’s governing body announced that after an investigation its control, ethics and disciplinary body had imposed a lifetime ban and written to Fifa to ask the world governing body to extend that globally. Continue reading...