Commentary: Soccer league is overlooking extensive abuse allegations against club owner Rory Dames
This sobering tweet introduces a recent national front-page article on the inadequate response to widespread abuse in women’s soccer: “Rory Dames is mentioned almost 400 times in Sally Yates’ voluminous report on abuse in women’s soccer. The specific details of his abuse, and how the former Chicago Red Stars and elite youth coach was allowed to get away with it, take up 38 pages.”
How can Dames, the focus of extensive allegations of sexual, verbal and emotional abuse, be banned from the National Women’s Soccer League but still own suburban Chicago
