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Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has issued a beingness prohibition to Petr Vlachovsky, a Czech women's shot manager who secretly filmed his players, the governing assemblage announced connected Tuesday (May 19, 2026).
Czech media reported that the coach was convicted successful May 2025 and initially received a suspended one-year situation condemnation and a five-year home coaching prohibition for filming FC Slovacko's players successful changing rooms, the youngest of whom was 17.
In a statement, UEFA's Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body (CEDB) said it had decided to prohibition Vlachovsky "from exercising immoderate football-related enactment for life" following the assignment of an Ethics and Disciplinary Inspector to analyse allegations of imaginable misconduct.
"The CEDB further decided to petition FIFA to extend the abovementioned prohibition connected a worldwide level and to bid the Football Association of the Czech Republic to revoke Mr. Petr Vlachovsky’s coaching licence," the connection added.
FC Slovacko did not immediately respond to an emailed petition for comment. Football players' national International Federation of Professional Footballers (FIFPRO) welcomed the prohibition arsenic good arsenic UEFA's petition for satellite shot governing assemblage International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) to enforce an planetary prohibition connected Vlachovsky.
"This result sends a beardown and indispensable connection that abusive and inappropriate behaviour has nary spot successful shot and that safeguarding the wellbeing of players indispensable stay a precedence astatine each level of the game," FIFPRO added successful a statement.
Vlachovsky had besides antecedently served arsenic manager of the Czech women's Under-19s team.
