“For 35 years I have kept this a secret from the world, from my family, from my teammates, from my players, from my colleagues. And what I now see, also from myself,” she wrote in a long message on Twitter. “Even those closest to me knew nothing about it. This is the most difficult thing in my life. But finally I am ready to move on and be proud of who I am.”
Pauw writes that the three men were all working in Dutch football at the time of the abuse. She talks about “systematic sexual abuse, abuse of power, bullying, intimidation, isolation and framing” to which she was exposed “as a player and as a coach in Dutch football.”
