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I& #39;ve got a @FT_Podcast_ episode coming out on Thursday looking into the Haitian Football Federation scandal with Yves Jean-Bart accused of sexual offenses against underage girls in his charge.
One thing that has struck me in researching the topic is just how much this issue is being brushed under the carpet. I consider myself a fairly up-to-date and interested consumer of football with an eye on social injustice and yet I had heard nothing of these cases.
And so - a thread:
Here& #39;s a piece from @tariqpanja last year on the general impact of the #MeToo 
https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> phenomenon on football: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/sports/metoo-soccer-sexual-harassment.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/0...
Around the same time, @SuzyWrack exposed sexual crimes in Afghanistan, eventually resulting in the president of the Afghan federation being banned from football by FIFA: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/dec/27/sexual-abuse-allegations-afghan-fa-president-keramuudin-karim">https://www.theguardian.com/football/...
Meanwhile, over at FIFPro: https://twitter.com/FIFPro/status/1131935931978702848">https://twitter.com/FIFPro/st...
With regards Haiti, this article brought to light the abuses: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/apr/30/haiti-fa-president-accused-of-sexually-abusing-young-female-footballers">https://www.theguardian.com/football/...
Followed up by this: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/may/21/alleged-victims-of-haiti-fa-president-say-they-have-received-threats">https://www.theguardian.com/football/...
There is a group of journalists doing sterling work on these issues - @Romain_Molina @ed_aarons @tariqpanja @SuzyWrack @AlexCizmic and others - but the wider acknowledgment just doesn& #39;t seem to be there.
