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A former football trainer in Munich was handed a sentence of seven and a half years on Thursday for 153 rapes and hundreds of sexual assaults on boys in his charge over several years. The 47-year-old man admitted the crimes. The former head trainer at a club in the southern German region assaulted the teenage boys while pretending to administer physiotherapy, raping them in a number of cases. The offences were perpetrated on a massage bench in clubhouse or in the home of the trainer. He told the boys the massages were aimed at improving blood circulation in their muscles. The court disagreed w…