FIFA investigates abuses in Africa: “I have seen hell”

Sexual harassment in women’s football in Africa takes on new chapters. The most recent take place in Sierra Leone, where the debate on the prevention of abuse and harassment in sport is being reopened due to the various episodes that have been reported.

front Kandeh-Turay, who captained the Under-20 team, was 17 in 2017 when she denounced the coach of the senior women’s team, Abdulai Bah, for treating the players badly. So the issue was ignored, but FIFA is careful to look into these cases and start shedding some light on these dark episodes so they don’t happen again.

The player complained that his coach sent him pictures of his penis and pornographic videos, in addition to “asking him for sex every day” for several months.

“I’ve seen hell,” the player explained. “I started talking about it with my friends and we decided to go and say it,” he added in statements to the English newspaper ‘The watchman’. “I told him some of the things we had to deal with and, without naming names, I told him that one of the trainers was asking us for sex and that it was scary. He said, ‘Okay , we will fix that. But every time I tried to contact him after that, I never got any response. I have been trying to raise these issues for a long time when he was there. Isha he knows me by name,” he said.

For his part, Assurance by Isha Johansen who did his best as the country’s FA director

The one who chooses Bah was suspended in October 2021 when Kandeh Turay repeated his accusations against him in a radio interview. Now, finally, FIFA’s ethics committee is investigating the abuses after criticism from the international players’ union, Fifpro. The police assured The Guardian that Bahwho dismissed the accusations against him as “absolutely false and baseless”, remains on bail.