Midfielder Lindsey Horan, who won the World Cup with the USA in 2019, testifies to adult bullying.
She says that her coach in Paris Saint-Germain, Farid Benstiti, mocked her several times and thought she was overweight.
- After an away match, a teammate who was sitting in front of me had chocolate.
The coach noticed it and went back in the team bus and basically took the chocolate from her and said: "You can not have that around Lindsey", says Lindsey Horan in the pod Butterfly Road.
In addition to that, Benstiti during Horan's four years in the club must also have laughed and said during a team photo shoot that she must someday go down in size from large to medium.
Then she improved her physical shape, and according to the American herself, she was one of the team's best trained.
"I did not like"
- But he still said that my weight was not good enough, my body fat was still too high.
That I will not play until it gets better.
I wanted to quit football.
I did not like it and I lost my love for the sport, she says.
Lindsey Horan belonged to PSG between 2012 and 2016. Farid Benstiti was the club's coach during the same period, today he is the coach of the American top league team OL Reign.
A competitor to Horan's current club Portland.