{"id":118831,"date":"2025-06-18T02:05:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T02:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=118831"},"modified":"2025-06-18T02:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T02:05:26","slug":"emotional-abuse-sexual-misconduct-in-womens-professional-soccer-prompts-calls-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=118831","title":{"rendered":"Emotional abuse, sexual misconduct in women&#8217;s professional soccer prompts calls for change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vFbQirArJRE?rel=0&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>A year-long independent investigation into the National Women&#8217;s Soccer League uncovered systemic patterns of emotional abuse and sexual misconduct, and that the league and U.S. Soccer Federation failed to act for years to address players\u2019 complaints. Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates led the inquiry and joined Amna Nawaz to discuss the findings.<\/p>\n<p>Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/2Jb8twG<br \/>\nFind more from PBS NewsHour at https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<br \/>\nSubscribe to our YouTube channel: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HfsCD6 <\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@pbsnews<br \/>\nTwitter: http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newshour<br \/>\nInstagram: http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newshour<br \/>\nFacebook: http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe:<br \/>\nPBS NewsHour podcasts: https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/podcasts<br \/>\nNewsletters: https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/subscribe<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vFbQirArJRE\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year-long independent investigation into the National Women&#8217;s Soccer League uncovered systemic patterns of emotional abuse and sexual misconduct, and that the league and U.S. Soccer Federation failed to act&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7212,"featured_media":118832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-world-wide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}