Ex-player reveals fears he was first victim of paedo footie coach as he claims sex beast Barry Bennell abused him as a schoolboy aged 13

A FORMER footballer said last night he fears he may be paedophile coach Barry Bennell’s first victim.

Yan Nowacki, 57, claims Bennell abused him in the early 70s when he was 13.

It happened after Bennell, then 18 or 19, invited winger Yan to sleep over at his mum’s.

Yan, then in a Manchester youth team which Bennell coached, said: “The first season was fine but the abuse happened in the second season. In the changing room, he would rub everyone’s legs. Right up your thighs with the cream.

“On one occasion he asked me to go round to watch a film. He had a flat in Hulme but also stayed at his mother’s in Fallowfield, which I went to.

“I went round one evening and he said ‘oh, stay the night’. He said I could sleep in his room but his mother said ‘no, put him in the spare room’.

“He ignored her and I ended up in his bed. It was supposed to be head-to-toe but it didn’t end up that way.

“I remember falling asleep and waking up to find his hands on me. The groping would wake me up.

“The night it happened he had his hands everywhere, moving all over. I was probably 13. He was feeling my buttocks and my genitals.

“He acted like he was asleep and didn’t know what he was doing – pretending. I got out and slept on the floor.

“I didn’t know what to do and I was only 13, and he was my coach so I was scared to say anything. I wanted to be on the team. A week later he invited me back but I made up an excuse.”

Divorced Yan spoke out after Andy Woodward, 43, became the latest player with League Two side Crewe to claim Bennell abused him in the 1980s.

The club last night launched an investigation into their ­allegations.

Salesman Yan, who was signed by Man United at 15, said: “I feel terrible. If I was his first victim and had told police perhaps all this wouldn’t have happened.”

Bennell, 62, has served three jail sentences for child sex offences, one last year.