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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is what happens when you take a coach who's worked only with male players his entire life, and male PROFESSIONAL players too.

It's not his fault. Spirit players must just be "soft"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/08/11/richie-burke-nwsl-spirit-verbal-abuse/[/quote]

The Spirit hired him with major allegations that sound very similar to what is coming out from the Spirit players only at the youth level. He had no major soccer coaching experience(college or professional) plus baggage. Why did the spirit hire him? This is on the owner.

[quote] Throughout training and scrimmages last year, McCullough said, the team’s now-former coach, Richie Burke, screamed at her, and he didn’t stop. Anything could set him off, she said, prompting him to unleash a torrent of threats, criticism and personal insults on McCullough and her teammates.
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Off the field, Burke also made racially insensitive jokes and comments that McCullough, who is Black, said left her feeling “very uncomfortable.”
“I was 100 percent in a situation where I was being emotionally abused by Richie,” McCullough said in an interview. “He created this environment where I knew I wasn’t playing as well, because I was so, so scared to mess up and be yelled at. It crippled my performance, and it made me super anxious.”

He made me hate soccer,” McCullough said.
McCullough, 23, left the Spirit in the middle of the pandemic-altered season last year because of what she described as verbal and emotional abuse by Burke. She is one of at least four players who have left the Spirit in the past two years because of Burke’s treatment, according to interviews with former players and others with knowledge of the decisions.[/quote]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/08/11/richie-burke-nwsl-spirit-verbal-abuse/[/quote]

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