Uganda coach guilty of sexual assault

The coach of Serbian origin Milutin Sredojevic, better known as ‘Micho’ and current Ugandan coach, was found guilty on Tuesday of two crimes of sexual assault in South Africa, country in which he led the Orlando Pirates.

The South African Justice punished Sredojevic with three years in prison for each crime, but the Serbian will not have to enter prison if the next 5 years does not incur any other similar crime.

The sentence, which is still appealable, was issued this Tuesday in a regional court in the South African town of Gqeberha (formerly called Port Elizabeth and located in the southeast of the country).

There, a 39-year-old woman had denounced him for sexual harassment committed in a stadium during a sports tournament last December, while she worked delivering coffee.

Through a statement, the South African Prosecutor’s Office revealed that the victim asked Sredojevic if he needed sugar with the coffee and he told him that he did not, but that he needed “another type of sugar, while pointing at his private parts (genitals)”.

The worker complained to her superior, who warned the coach not to do it again. But later, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, the woman brought coffee again and Sredojevic “touched her buttocks.”

In August 2019, according to the South African press, a cleaner at a Johannesburg hotel had already accused him of sexual harassment.

Sredojevic, 52, worked in Europe, but his career was largely forged as head of African clubs. His time in the national teams of Rwanda, Zambia and Uganda stands out.