The man accused of rape by former national team coach Vera Pauw is – so he suspects – the 73-year-old former football coach Piet Buter. The former technical director of FC Utrecht admits to the AD that he had a short-lived affair with the fourteen-year-younger soccer coach in the 1980s, but says that rape was ‘absolutely out of the question’. “This is like a bolt from the blue for me and my family,” says Buter, himself also a former national coach of the football players of Orange.