{"id":8802,"date":"2023-11-16T18:13:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T12:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/16\/overmars-gets-dutch-ban-over-sexually-explicit-messages\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T12:43:08","slug":"overmars-gets-dutch-ban-over-sexually-explicit-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/16\/overmars-gets-dutch-ban-over-sexually-explicit-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Overmars gets Dutch ban over sexually explicit messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disgraced former international Marc Overmars on Thursday received a one-year fixed ban from working in Dutch football after sending sexually explicit pictures and videos to women staff.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Netherlands winger quit as Ajax\u2019s director of football in February 2022 after admitting sending a \u201cseries of inappropriate messages\u201d to female colleagues, saying he was \u201cashamed\u201d of his behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>A month later, he got a \u201csecond chance\u201d at Royal Antwerp, appointed as technical director for the Belgian club.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch Sports Tribunal (ISR) ruled Overmars should be prohibited from \u201cexercising any function\u201d with an organisation affiliated with the Dutch FA for two years, one of which was suspended.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ:<a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/football\/world-cup-qualifiers-brazil-vs-colombia-argentina-no-player-pressure-take-over-neymar-role-brazil-coach-fernando-diniz\/article67538947.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> World Cup qualifiers: No player should feel pressure to take over Neymar\u2019s role in Brazil, says coach<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen considering the appropriate punishment, the disciplinary committee took into account the fact that this affair has received a lot of publicity and that the accused has been damaged by it,\u201d the ISR said in its ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, it noted that the \u201cinappropriate behaviour\u201d had gone on for a long time and that there had been multiple instances.<\/p>\n<p>Given the 50-year-old is now working in Belgium, the ruling is unlikely to have an immediate consequence.<\/p>\n<p>Overmars won the Champions League with Ajax in 1995 before going on to play for Arsenal and Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>Internationally, he represented the Netherlands at four major tournaments &#8212; the 1994 and 1998 World Cups and the 2000 and 2004 European championships.<\/p>\n<p>After his playing career came to an end, he became sporting director at Ajax in 2012.<\/p>\n<div class=\"comments-shares share-page\">\n<p class=\"comments\">\nComments\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ex-Netherlands winger quit as Ajax\u2019s director of football in February 2022 after admitting sending a \u201cseries of inappropriate messages\u201d to female colleagues, saying he was \u201cashamed\u201d of his behaviour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-sport-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}