The judges concluded 'the evidence on file is insufficient to corroborate, to its comfortable satisfaction, the players' account of the events.'' The chief judge, Vassilios Skouris, is a former president of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. Now, more than two years after an investigation led by two women began, the alleged victims discovered that a panel of three male FIFA ethics judges declined to find Guacci guilty. To teenage players in Argentina, he was the coach who allegedly exposed himself on a video call, sent sexually explicit messages and berated girls as young as 14 in the locker room with sexually threatening abuse after losing a match.įive players testified to FIFA ethics committee investigators that their club coach, who later became technical director of Argentina's national teams for under-15 and under-17 girls, violated his duty of care by directing sexual harassment, abusive behavior and anti-gay messages at them. Within FIFA, Diego Guacci was the women's football expert in South America chosen to help select candidates for its world player of the year award. The technical director of Argentina's national teams was cleared by FIFA of sexual harassment charges.
