Overview
- UEFA's Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body, which announced the ruling Tuesday, barred Petr Vlachovsky from all football roles for life.
- The panel asked FIFA to make the sanction worldwide and ordered the Czech football association to revoke his coaching licence.
- Vlachovsky was convicted in May 2025 in the Czech Republic and received a one-year suspended sentence plus a five-year domestic coaching ban for covertly filming players.
- Authorities say he hid a miniature camera in a backpack to record 14 players over four years, including one who was 17, and he was found with child sexual abuse material.
- FIFPRO welcomed the decision, and victims who learned of the filming after the 2023 arrest have described lasting fear, pressure that could drive stronger safeguards and better cross-border enforcement.