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PARIS — As world soccer opens its most important championship for women this week, it is confronting a range of accusations that men with influence over women in the sport repeatedly have used their positions to harass or abuse them.
Since the start of this year, coaches and administrators in at least five countries on four continents have been accused by players and colleagues of sexual misconduct, inappropriate behavior and even rape.
Now, an internal investigation has begun into a vice president of FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, after he was accused, among other transgressions, of dismissing an employee in 2017 after she rejected his romantic advances.