IZUMO, Nov 08 (News On Japan) –
Two gamers from Japan’s Nadeshiko League have taken the uncommon step of publicly accusing their membership of harassment, naming Diossa Izumo FC as the location of alleged sexual and energy harassment by the crew’s head coach.
Laura Spezzato, 26: “We didn’t come to Japan to be slaves to bullying and harassment.”
On October sixth, two Brazilian gamers from Diossa Izumo FC within the second division of the Nadeshiko League held a press convention in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, revealing particulars of the alleged harassment. Each gamers wore the crew’s key numbers, 9 and 10, signaling the excessive expectations positioned on them.
In response to their lawyer, between 2022 and August 2024, the gamers confronted repeated sexual harassment, with the top coach utilizing a Portuguese slang time period for male genitalia to deal with them throughout practices and matches every time they made errors.
Lawyer for the gamers: “The coach knew that each Laura and Tais have been uncomfortable, but he continued utilizing these phrases over three seasons. That is extraordinarily malicious habits.”
Moreover, the gamers allege the coach hung underwear in a storage room utilized by gamers and that regardless of their protests, he didn’t stop these actions.
There have been additionally discriminatory remarks from a coach, who reportedly mocked the gamers’ lack of Japanese language abilities.
The Brazilian gamers declare that though the membership was contracted to offer interpreters for practices and video games, an interpreter was solely organized about as soon as per week. When the gamers raised the interpreter problem by means of workers in Could 2024, the coach allegedly threatened them, saying, “Then I received’t allow you to play.”
Identified with despair by a doctor, each gamers left the crew in August 2024.
Laura Spezzato: “I can’t sleep from the complications… I really feel like going house. I ought to love soccer, however I can’t discover the power to play the game I really like.”
Tais Fehe, 25: “I am annoyed that I can’t play the game I really like.”
Via their lawyer, the gamers have filed a criticism with the Japan Girls’s Soccer League, demanding the coach’s dismissal.
Lawyer for the gamers: “The soccer world continues to be far behind. It has a novel village-like ambiance that preserves energy harassment and old style management kinds.”
The membership responded at a press convention held on the identical day.
Diossa Sports activities Membership, an NPO, Chairman: “I can’t perceive why issues have come to this after they had such a superb relationship. It’s an entire thriller.”
The membership’s inside investigation claimed the Portuguese phrases used have been widespread slang throughout errors, with no intent of discrimination, they usually have reported the scenario to the Japan Girls’s Soccer League. The membership will proceed to verify the details.
Supply: FNN
