Canada's national men's and women's soccer teams are embroiled in a drone spying scandal that allegedly goes back years.
which saw two staffers immediately sent home. It turns out this may not have been the first time Canada’s teams did this, however., the coaching staff and contractors working for both the men’s and women’s Canadian national soccer teams have spied on opponents for years with and without drones, including during the women’s gold medal-winning performance in Tokyo in 2021 and a World Cup qualifying game against Panama in 2022.
This week, Joseph Lombardi, an unaccredited analyst with Canada Soccer, was caught piloting a drone over New Zealand’s soccer team’s closed practice session. Lombardi and assistant coach Jasmine Mander were sent home as a result and, while she apologized in a statement issued that same day, head coach Bev Priestman was later suspended from coaching the rest of the Paris games.
After the initial story broke, Canada Soccer chief executive Kevin Blue said he had been provided new evidence that the team had been spying on opponents before the Paris games, leading to Priestman’s suspension.sources, the men’s national team also filmed closed training sessions of opponents, including practice sessions of the US men’s team in 2019 and a World Cup qualifying match against Honduras in 2021.
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