Serge Mombo, a leading football official in Gabon, has been accused of sexually abusing young players and demanding sex as a condition of them securing places in national teams. Mombo was re-elected as president of La Ligue de l’Estuaire, Gabon’s senior football league, in June 2021. He also denied claims he provided a Gabonese football coach, Patrick Assoumou Eyi, known as “Capello”, with boys to sexually abuse. Photograph: Handout“In the national team, Serge Mombo was a predator,” he said. Mombo denied the claims of sexual abuse and said that he had “never worked with this Capello in a national team.

Source: The Guardian January 06, 2022 23:01 UTC