Best of 2021 - #5: NWSL Coach Fired Over Sexual Coercion Accusations
The Lead
Wondery
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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To close out 2021, we're replaying our 10 best episodes of the year. At #5 we have 'NWSL Coach Fired Over Sexual Coercion Accusations.' The Athletic's Meg Linehan spent months investigating claims made against former North Carolina Courage head coach Paul Riley and joined us to discuss what she found.
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| 0:53.0 | While our team is away, we're counting down our 10 very best episodes of 2021. |
| 0:59.0 | And today, we're replaying a story that really created a huge stir when it was first reported by the athletics Meg Lennahan. |
| 1:07.0 | And just a heads up that the episode does contain discussions of disturbing sexual behavior. |
| 1:13.0 | It first aired back in early October. All right, here it is. |
| 1:24.0 | The rose city has landed smack dab in the middle of a nationwide controversy involving professional women's soccer. |
| 1:32.0 | I'm Thursday, the athletics Meg Lennahan published a story that led to the firing of a powerful soccer figure and a reckoning for the sport. |
| 1:40.0 | A lengthy article in the athletic shook the national women's soccer league to its core as former players accused one time, |
| 1:46.0 | Portland Foreign said coach Paul Riley of sexual coercion across many teams for several years. |
| 1:51.0 | Today, Meg joins us to talk about that report and the upheaval it is created. |
| 1:57.0 | From Wondering in the athletic, I'm Anders Keltow. It's Friday, October 1st, and this is The Lead. |
| 2:03.0 | So Meg, first, can you just tell us a little about Paul Riley's background and his stature in the soccer world? |
| 2:15.0 | So Paul Riley is a coach in the national women's soccer league currently for the North Carolina courage, the most dominant team in the end of BSL from basically since 2016. |
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