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ew Delhi: His LinkedIn page shows he wants to open a football academy for young players in Himachal Pradesh, but football coach Deepak Sharma now finds himself embroiled in charges of assault and sexual harassment by two women footballers...
In their complaints to Indias top football body All India Football Federation (AIFF), the two women aged 18 and 21 claimed that Sharma, a coach at Himachal Pradesh-based Khad Football Club and a now-suspended executive member of the federation, barged into their room and physically assaulted them..
The incident occurred on 28 March at the Goa Football Federation, where he was accompanying their team to play in the second division of the Indian Womens Football League (IWL)...
He has been associated with the Himachal Pradesh Football Federation (HPFF) for years and was elected as an executive member of the AIFF last year, in the competitions department, this person, who didnt want to be named, told ThePrint...
According to his LinkedIn profile, 61-year-old Sharma, a resident of Himachals Una district, has served as general secretary at the HPFF since May 2010 and was a football coach at the Boys Sports Hostel in Shimlas Rohru between 1994 and 2006...
