MPs grill ex-Canada Soccer president over handling of disgraced coach Birarda
OTTAWA — The former president of Canada Soccer confronted questions Thursday at a parliamentary committee over the hiring and conduct of a disgraced former coach by a B.C. neighborhood membership.
Steven Reed served as president of Canada Soccer from 2017 to 2020 and beforehand as president of BC Soccer from 2006 to 2009. He additionally served in a vice-president function and as chair of the finance committee for Canada Soccer.
He says he was unaware that former Canadian ladies’s soccer head coach Bob Birarda had been employed by a neighborhood membership till 2017. Birarda was sentenced to just about 16 months in jail in 2022 for intercourse offences that “immeasurably harmed” 4 feminine teenage athletes.
After roughly half-hour of questioning, the committee took the choice to have Reed reply questions beneath oath.
Reed was repeatedly questioned by politicians in regards to the lack of motion he allegedly took when it got here to defending gamers from Birarda.
Reed says the soccer system on the time didn’t have mechanisms in place to trace coaches who might have been accused of misconduct.
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