
Wayne Rooney and Alan Shearer, England captains present and past, have urged soccer players to come forward with allegations of sexual abuse amid the growing scandal in the British game. Rooney joined with other current captains of various English national teams in a video on safeguarding published for the Football Association and children's charity NSPCC. It has led to about 350 people reporting incidents of child sexual abuse at soccer clubs to 18 British police forces investigating the scandal.
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