Brazilian Club Sack 4 Players After Masturbation Video Scandal in Dressing Room

Brazilian club Sport Clube Gaucho have sacked four players after a video of them masturbating in the team's dressing room went public.

According to AS, a first-team player filmed three others mutually masturbating and the video subsequently went viral, prompting club president Gilmar Rosso to immediately terminate their contracts.

He told Globo Esporte (h/t AS):

"When I hit play, I deleted it, I think it's disgusting. Outside business hours, we have nothing to do with the situation. If they want to get drunk, [be] gay or not, that's their problem.

"What I have to answer as president is during a trip, office hours. That’s my responsibility. The club is not a keeper of morals and good manners. The only thing we have to answer to is the making of the video inside the club dressing room."

Rosso also spoke to UOL Sport (h/t Marca) and said his decision was not only because the video was filmed on club property but also to spare the players in question from humiliation at the hands of supporters.

The Passo Fundo-based outfit ply their trade in the third tier of their local league in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, the Campeonato Gaucho Serie B.