Canada’s women’s national team made negative headlines at the Olympics with a spying scandal. Now, the coaching and support staff are having to live with the dramatic consequences.
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The Canadian national team’s hopes of making it to the Olympics have suffered a serious setback in recent days. After learning that the training of the first opponent in the group New Zealand was spied on with a drone, FIFA deducted six points from the Tokyo gold medalists.
Despite two wins against New Zealand and hosts France, the North Americans are only in third place in Group A with zero points, but reaching the round of 16 is still possible. In addition, she has become national coach Bev Priestman and two other members of the coaching staff were banned from all football-related activities for a full year.
Today, Canadian politics is also involved in the spying scandal. “Using a drone to monitor another team during a closed-door practice is cheating. It is completely unfair to Canadian players and opposing teams. It undermines the integrity of the game itself,” the sports minister said. Carla Qualtough in a report clear.
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The sports authority, Sport Canada, will therefore not pay any salaries to the three people involved during the duration of their ban. Priestman has already apologized and announced that he did not want to hinder the course of events: “I am heartbroken for the players and I would like to apologize from the bottom of my heart for the impact this situation has had on all of them. As the leader of the team on the field, I want to take responsibility and I intend to cooperate fully with the investigation,” said the Canadian coach of England.
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