A coach secretly filmed his women players undressing – yet he can still work in football

Using a miniature camera hidden in his backpack, Vlachovsky, who managed first-division side 1. FC Slovacko in the Champions League and was once voted the Czech Republic’s best women’s coach — re

It was when the police officer called that it really hit Kristyna Janku. The Czech Republic international was asked to go to the police station to identify herself in video footage and photos taken between 2019 and 2023 by her former coach, Petr Vlachovsky. Janku could not believe what she was watching.

Using a miniature camera hidden in his backpack, Vlachovsky, who managed first-division side 1. FC Slovacko in the Champions League and was once voted the Czech Republic’s best women’s coach — recorded 15 players, the youngest aged 17, showering and changing in various locker rooms before and after practice and matches. Janku, 31, had known Vlachovsky, former coach of the Czech Under-19 women’s team, for a long time.

She thought she had a good working relationship with him, was friends with his wife, and knew his children. Janku and other players had been invited to a party before his wedding, yet this man invaded their privacy at a club that Janku called “home”. “You never think something like that can happen,” Janku, who spent 13 seasons at 1.