A Scot is facing up to 20 years in prison in the US for obstructing a criminal investigation into a youth football organisation.
Gavin MacPhee, 35, was a senior figure at Global Premier Soccer (GPS), a player development academy based in Waltham, Massachusetts.
He deleted an email account and other files after a federal probe was launched into a colleague at the company last year.
The investigation concerns allegations of poor working conditions and immigration paperwork irregularities for GPS coaches coming from abroad.
MacPhee, originally of Rothes, Moray, coached players at GPS and was also the firm’s marketing director and general manager of its Rhode Island franchise.
He has now pled guilty to one count of destruction, alteration or falsification of records in a federal investigation.
The maximum sentence for the offence is 20 years in jail.
He is due to be sentenced in September.
