Overview
- UEFA’s disciplinary panel barred Petr Vlachovský from all football activities for life and asked FIFA to apply the sanction worldwide.
- Investigators found he hid a camera between 2019 and 2023 to record players in showers and changing rooms, including at least one 17-year-old.
- Reports differ on the victim count, with outlets citing either 14 or 15 players, but all confirm at least one minor was filmed.
- A Czech court had earlier given him a one-year suspended prison term and a five-year national coaching ban, which several athletes later condemned as too lenient.
- Players describe lasting fear and anxiety, and unions like FIFPRO welcomed UEFA’s move as a step toward safer locker rooms and tougher safeguards in the sport.