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I'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's a piece from @tariqpanja last year on the general impact of the #MeToo 
phenomenon on football: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/sports/metoo-soccer-sexual-harassment.html
phenomenon on football: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/sports/metoo-soccer-sexual-harassment.html
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
Meanwhile, over at FIFPro: https://twitter.com/FIFPro/status/1131935931978702848
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
Followed up by this: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/may/21/alleged-victims-of-haiti-fa-president-say-they-have-received-threats
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't seem to be there.
The more I investigate FIFA, the more it becomes apparent this is how they continue to deflect from any responsibility on the issue. Hopefully, this thread will help you along a route that I have only just found my way along (of which I'm ashamed it's taken me so long).
