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\nLOS ANGELES: US international captain Becky Sauerbrunn said Tuesday team owners and officials implicated in a bombshell report which detailed systemic sexual abuse and misconduct in US women\u2019s soccer should be barred from the sport.<\/p>\n
\nThe 37-year-old two-time World Cup winner said players were \u201chorrified and heartbroken\u201d by the findings of a report published on Monday following a year-long investigation by former US Attorney General Sally Yates.<\/p>\n
\nYates\u2019 report included interviews with more than 200 National Women\u2019s Soccer League players \u2014 many of them members of US national teams \u2014 and detailed patterns of abuse from team coaches, manipulation and tirades.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cEvery owner and executive and US soccer official who has repeatedly failed the players and failed to protect the players who have hidden behind legalities and have not participated fully in these investigations should be gone,\u201d Sauerbrunn said in a video-conference call from London, where the US women\u2019s team is preparing for a friendly with England on Friday.<\/p>\n
\nMerritt Paulson, the owner of Sauerbrunn\u2019s club, the Portland Thorns, was accused in the Yates report along with other club officials of enabling misconduct by former Thorns manager Paul Riley.<\/p>\n
\nPressed on whether Paulson was included in the team owners she believes should be forced out of the NWSL, Sauerbrunn replied: \u201cIt includes everyone that has continued to fail the players time and time again, who didn\u2019t take players concerns seriously, who didn\u2019t pass on information correctly, who have not participated in investigations. All of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIn a separate development on Tuesday, Paulson, who is also the owner of the Portland Timbers Major League Soccer franchise, said he was removing himself from all Thorns-related decision-making until the conclusion of a separate NWSL\/NWSL Players Association investigation.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI cannot apologize enough for our role in a gross systemic failure to protect player safety and the missteps we made in 2015,\u201d Paulson said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI am truly sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nSauerbrunn, meanwhile, said players were \u201cnot doing well\u201d following publication of the findings of the investigation, which was launched last year after reports in The Athletic and Washington Post lifted the lid on abuse in the NWSL.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe are horrified and heartbroken and frustrated and exhausted and really, really angry,\u201d said Sauerbrunn, a veteran of 208 internationals stretching back to 2008.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe are angry that it took a third party investigation. We\u2019re angry that it took an article in The Athletic and the Washington Post.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe\u2019re angry that it took over 200 people sharing their trauma to get to this point right now.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cFor so long, this has always fallen on the players to demand change. And that is because the people in authority and decision-making positions have repeatedly failed to protect us. And they have failed to hold themselves and each other accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nUS head coach Vlatko Andonovski, meanwhile, said members of his squad would be given the option of sitting out this week\u2019s game against England if they decided they were not in the right frame of mind for the game.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cSome players and staff members need time, need space, need to process all of it,\u201d Andonovski said. \u201cThat\u2019s why we as a staff are allowing the players to think and process to do whatever they need in order to get over this difficult time.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIf that means they don\u2019t want to participate in a team meeting, or in a team training, or even if they don\u2019t want to play the game, then it\u2019s up to them,\u201d said Andonovski, adding that he was \u201csickened and disgusted\u201d by details of the report.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cNow this report is out, it\u2019s our job to do our part to make sure that no one has to deal with this ever again in our sport at any level,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\nSauerbrunn, meanwhile, said she has not contemplated the possibility of going on strike to force change in the NWSL.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI haven\u2019t thought about not playing,\u201d she said. \u201cI hope it won\u2019t get to that point. A lot of us have been navigating these things for a very long time and you find a way to deal with it. We, as women, as players have faced a lot for a very long time. Unfortunately, I\u2019d say you get used to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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