Prosecutors said a South African court sentenced Ugandan national football coach Milutin “Micho” Sredojevic to a three-year suspended sentence on two counts of sexual assault.
The crimes were committed while he was coaching Zambia last year.
“Earlier this morning, the Port Elizabeth regional court found former Zambian national football team coach, Milutin Sredojevic, …guilty of two counts of sexual assault,” the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said in a statement.
The three-year jail sentence was wholly suspended for five years, on the condition he does not commit another sexual offence.
The offence arose from an incident in December 2020 during a regional tournament in the South African city of Gqeberha, formerly Port Elizabeth.
According to the NPA, a 39-year-old woman serving coffee at a stadium asked Sredojevic if he took sugar in his coffee, to which he replied, “no, and that he required another form of sugar, pointing to her private parts.”
When the same woman returned later in the day to deliver coffee, “Sredojevic touched her in an unpleasant manner.”
Sredojevic was rehired by the Ugandan Football Federation (FUFA) this year. In a dispute over $54,000 in unpaid wages, he left the job four years ago.
He has signed a three-year contract with Uganda, which take in the qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar which started in September.
He has been coaching national teams and clubs in Africa since 2001.
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