We Never Received a Response
I was an assistant coach for a men’s college soccer program. The head coach, goalkeeper coach, and I were on a call with a player from France who was in the recruitment process. It was the first time we had spoken to him directly. There was a slight language barrier, but aside from that, the meeting was going as expected and generally well. Then things got so bad, so fast.
All of a sudden, we saw his bedroom door slam open, and a man began verbally bombarding the young man, screaming at him with growing aggression in another language. The situation escalated quickly, as the older man began physically harming the boy with consecutive swings to his head and face. The call was terminated seconds later.
We never fully understood the situation, its reasoning, or its context. We tried many attempts to contact him via phone and email, but we never received a response. The school went as far as to contact the local French authorities to report the video.
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