It’s Normal That The Coach Sleeps With Us –National Female Footballers

Members of a national female football team, has made startling revelation: it is normal that the coach sleeps with us, they say.

Already, this revelation from the Zambian women football team has landed the head coach in trouble.

He is currently under investigation for sexual misconduct, despite that the team is due to contest for honours in this month’s World Cup, a story monitored from the Zambian Observer has said.

The coach is Bruce Mwape who was appointed in May 2018 and helped Zambia qualify for the World Cup for the first time.

“If he [Mwape] wants to sleep with someone, you have to say yes,” one player who did not want to be named told the Guardian. “It’s normal that the coach sleeps with the players in our team.”

One source who knows the players said they had received threats, not from Mwape himself. “They are being threatened with punitive action if they dare say anything about what happened,” the source said. “The federation is turning a blind eye because the women have had good results. It’s their way to show to the public and the authorities success and a good image. But behind the scenes, it’s very ugly.”

READ ALSO: How Foreign Varsity Dismissed Nigerian Lecturer Over ‘Sex For Grade’…

Mwape referred questions sent by the Guardian to the FAZ press office. A FAZ spokesperson, asked by the Guardian whether it had received any complaints about Mwape’s conduct, referred to their statement of September 2022 and would not add to their comments.

“Although we have no record of official complaints from anyone on the allegations, we consider these allegations very serious and have opened an inquiry into the matter,” said the FAZ’s general secretary, Adrian Kashala, in the statement. “We shall collaborate with the Zambia Police Service and other relevant stakeholders in dealing with this matter.”

According to the FAZ’s president, Andrew Kamanga, the investigation was referred to police and FIFA to ensure that it is not accused of “taking sides”.

READ ALSO: Sex-for-marks scandal: the conversation between the professor and female student

“We prefer that an independent body such as FIFA which has the capacity to do it will be able to handle the inquiries,” he said in October 2022. “Definitely we are going to take sanctions; we have enough rules and regulations within football which we can deal with.”

The assertion: It’s Normal that the coach sleeps with us is certain to open a can of worms in the country’s sporting sector.