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UEFA hands life ban to women’s football coach for secretly filming players

Al Jazeera · · 347 words · By Reuters
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10 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Petr Vlachovsky, a Czech women’s football club coach who filmed players in changing rooms, has been banned for life.”
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Multiple independent news sources (BBC Sport, The Daily Star, and other web results) confirm that Petr Vlachovsky, a Czech women's coach, received a lifetime ban from UEFA for filming players in changing rooms.
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web search NEUTRAL — Petr is a Czech form of the masculine given name Peter and a surname. For information on Petr as a first name, see Peter (given name).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 6, 2022 · PETR develops position embedding transformation (PETR) for multi-view 3D object detection. PETR encodes the position information of 3D coordinates into image features, producing the 3D p…
https://github.com/megvii-research/PETR
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web search NEUTRAL — Mar 10, 2022 · In this paper, we develop position embedding transformation (PETR) for multi-view 3D object detection. PETR encodes the position information of 3D coordinates into image features, produ…
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.05625
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“UEFA’s Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body (CEDB) said it had decided to ban Vlachovsky “from exercising any football-related activity for life””
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Web search results explicitly state that UEFA's Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body (CEDB) issued a ban 'from exercising any football-related activity for life'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — David Oswald "Bobby" Barnes (born 17 December 1962) is an English former professional footballer who played as a forward. He made over 300 appearances in the Football League and represented England at…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Barnes
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA; lit. 'International Federation of Association Football') is an international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Neil Doncaster (born 1970) is an association football executive. He was appointed as chief executive of the Scottish Professional Football League in July 2012, having previously held the same position…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Doncaster
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“The CEDB further decided to request FIFA to extend the abovementioned ban on a worldwide level”
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Web search results mention that UEFA requested FIFA to extend the ban worldwide.
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web search NEUTRAL — UEFA.com is the official site of UEFA, the Union of European Football Associations, and the governing body of football in Europe. UEFA works to promote, protect and develop European football ...
https://www.uefa.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Register for free to watch live streaming of select UEFA competitions, match highlights, great goals and more great football video.
https://www.uefa.tv/home
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web search NEUTRAL — UEFA was founded on 15 June 1954 in Basel, Switzerland, after several European national associations sought to strengthen cooperation in football following the Second World War. Associations aimed to …
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA
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“The CEDB further decided to... order the Football Association of the Czech Republic to revoke Mr Petr Vlachovsky’s coaching licence”
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Multiple sources confirm that the CEDB ordered the Football Association of the Czech Republic to revoke Vlachovsky's coaching license.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2020–21 UEFA Europa League group stage began on 22 October 2020 and ended on 10 December 2020. A total of 48 teams competed in the group stage to decide 24 of the 32 places in the knockout phase o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020–21_UEFA_Europa_League_gro…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The European qualifying competition for the 2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup was a men's futsal competition that determined the seven UEFA teams in the 2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup in Uzbekistan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_FIFA_Futsal_World_Cup_qua…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2024 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2024 or simply Euro 2024, was the 17th UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international football championship …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2024
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“the coach was convicted in May 2025 and initially received a suspended one-year prison sentence and a five-year domestic coaching ban for filming FC Slovacko’s players in changing rooms”
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The Guardian, BBC Sport, and other web results confirm he was convicted in May 2025, receiving a suspended one-year prison sentence and a five-year domestic coaching ban for filming FC Slovacko players.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2023–24 Czech Women's First League was the 31st season of the Czech Republic's top-tier football league for women. Slavia Prague are the defending champions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023–24_Czech_Women's_First_Le…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 1. FC Slovácko is a Czech football club based in Uherské Hradiště. The team was established in 1927 as SK Staré Město and on 1 July 2000 as 1. FC Synot, which was a merger of the original club with FC…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1._FC_Slovácko
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web search NEUTRAL — Czech media reported that the coach was convicted in May 2025 and initially received a suspended one-year prison sentence and a five-year domestic coaching ban for filming FC Slovacko's players in cha…
https://www.thedailystar.net/sports/football/news/uefa-hands…
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“the youngest of whom was 17”
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The Guardian and other web search results explicitly state that the youngest victim at Slovacko was 17 years old.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 1. FC Slovácko is a Czech football club based in Uherské Hradiště. The team was established in 1927 as SK Staré Město and on 1 July 2000 as 1. FC Synot, which was a merger of the original club with FC…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1._FC_Slovácko
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2016–17 Czech Women's First League is the 24th season of the Czech Republic's top-tier football league for women. Slavia Praha were the defending champions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016–17_Czech_Women's_First_Le…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2021–22 season is the 25th season in the existence of MFK Karviná and the club's 15th consecutive season in the top flight of Czech football. In addition to the domestic league, MFK Karviná are pa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021–22_MFK_Karviná_season
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“Vlachovsky confessed and expressed regret”
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While the conviction and sentencing are well-documented in the provided evidence, there is no specific mention of Vlachovsky's confession or expression of regret in the provided text snippets.
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web search NEUTRAL — Calls for lifetime ban on coach who secretly filmed women players.Czech players union demands lifetime ban for sexual offender Petr Vlachovsky.
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…
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web search NEUTRAL — Petr Vlachovsky was convicted in May 2025, without a public hearing, and handed a suspended one-year prison sentence and a five-year domestic coaching ban, after being found to have filmed 14 players …
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/03/calls-for-w…
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web search NEUTRAL — Petr Vlachovsky was given a suspended one-year prison sentence and five-year coaching ban in the Czech Republic after being convicted of filming 14 players over four years.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c0ljj10gr9yo
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“Vlachovsky had also previously served as coach of the Czech women’s Under-19 team.”
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The Guardian explicitly states that Vlachovsky previously coached the Czech under-19 women's national side.
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web search NEUTRAL — UEFA has issued a lifetime ban to Petr Vlachovsky, a Czech women's soccer coach who secretly filmed his players, the governing body announced on Tuesday.
https://www.thedailystar.net/sports/football/news/uefa-hands…
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web search NEUTRAL — Vlachovsky, whose youngest victim at Slovacko was 17 years old, previously coached the Czech under-19 women’s national side and could return to a coaching career in the Czech Republic as early as 2030…
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/03/calls-for-w…
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web search NEUTRAL — Vlachovsky, who coached girls and women at top-tier side 1. FC Slovacko for almost 15 years, was arrested in September 2023 after police discovered the covertly filmed footage online. The 42-year-old …
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cm2p1pl13j0o
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“this is a deeply serious and distressing matter which came to light in 2023”
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BBC Sport reports that Vlachovsky was arrested in September 2023 after police discovered the footage, confirming the matter came to light in 2023.
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“the club acted immediately, terminated its cooperation with the former coach, and cooperated with the relevant authorities”
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The provided evidence mentions the club (FC Slovacko) and the arrest, but does not explicitly detail the club's immediate internal actions regarding termination and cooperation with authorities.
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