Six sanctions for Canada in spy drone case

Forced to win and depend on other results. Canada’s women’s soccer team started with a win over New Zealand (2-1) in the current edition of the Olympic Games, but FIFA announced on Saturday that she would be given a six-point penalty. in the current Paris 2024 tournament due to the spy drone case. In addition, the head coach Bev Priestman, Joseph Lombardi and Jasmine Mander, his coaching staff, responsible for using the devices during his opponent’s closed training session in Monday’s debut, are disqualified for one year.

Also, on the same Thursday The Canadian press reported that Canadian federation used drones to spy on other teams’ training in previous years, This fact even applies to the Tokyo 2020 Games, which will be held in 2021, where they won the gold medal in a penalty shootout.

The Canadian Olympic Committee was the first to respond to New Zealand’s complaint about drone surveillance during closed training on Monday.We are shocked and disappointed.

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Then it was the turn of the North American country’s own soccer federation to drop out of the game. Joseph Lombardi, the unaccredited analyst responsible for the drone flight, and Jasmine Mander, the assistant coach who received the report.. For her part, head coach Priestman said she would not sit on the bench against her opponent and a day later she was also suspended the governing body of that sport in its country.

now this FIFA reports on the consequences of an independent investigation: six points down in the Olympic tournamenta fine of 200,000 Swiss francs and one-year disqualifications for the aforementioned Bev Priestman, Joseph Lombardi and Jasmine Mander, an analyst and assistant for the Canadian team. The sanction leaves Canada with a minus three points in its ranking. classification group A, although this has not yet been eliminated mathematically. You must win the next two games (France and Colombia) and hope the rest of the results go their way..

“The CSA was found liable for non-compliance with the applicable FIFA regulations in relation to the failure to ensure that the officials involved complied with OFT requirements. “Ban on drone flights over any training area”

. This is stated in a statement by FIFA. In addition, it adds the reason for the disqualification of three members of the Canadian coaching staff: “The officials were found responsible for offensive conduct and regarding the breach of fair play principles in relation to the use of drones by the CSA Women’s Representative Team within the OFT.

The Canadian federation and the three disqualified individuals were informed of the sanctions and They will have 10 days to appeal FIFA’s decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport..

Sinclair, the historical captain, denies seeing drone images

The Canadian team faces a tough penalty for the coaching staff’s use of spy drones, and will have to try to get two wins on the field to get the +3 that would allow them to advance to the quarterfinals, depending on the rest of the players’ results. In the Games, the top two from each of the three groups and the two best third sets advance to the round. The historic captain of the North American team, which is not based in France, released a statement yesterday making it clear that she had never seen images of a device of this type.

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“Unfortunately, our team players had to endure reprehensible actions from some members of their staff while trying to defend our gold medal. I want to make it clear that, as a national team player for 23 years, we were never shown or discussed images. drones in the team or individual meetings that I attended,” he wrote on his personal social networks.

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