# The extraordinary story of a soccer coach, a kidnapping and a Saudi job that didn’t exist - The Athletic

<https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6985628/2026/01/21/adrian-heath-kidnapped-morocco-manager-saudi-arabia-scam/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Scary and incredible recount of former [Minnesota United](https://www.mnufc.com) head coach [Adrian Heath](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Heath) being kindapped!

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT338: Weekly Thing 338 / Authority, Humanizer, Left](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/338/), Briefly

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