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Canada Olympic Ladies’s Soccer Group Docked Six Factors Over Drone Scandal

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July 28, 2024
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Canada’s Olympic ladies’s soccer staff have been deducted six factors and their coach Beverly Priestman suspended for a yr after a employees member used a drone to spy on a rival staff on the Paris Games, FIFA stated on Saturday. Canada’s soccer affiliation was “responsible for failing to respect the applicable FIFA regulations in connection with… the prohibition on flying drones over any training sites”, FIFA stated. It additionally handed down a nice of 200,000 Swiss francs ($226,000). The ruling is a hammer blow to Canada’s hopes of defending the Olympic title they received on the Tokyo Games three years in the past.

It leaves them on minus three factors in Group A earlier than they play hosts France on Sunday in Saint-Etienne.

They beat New Zealand 2-1 of their opening sport on Thursday however the deduction means they now face having to win their subsequent two matches to face any likelihood of reaching the quarter-finals.

Analyst Joey Lombardi was despatched house after being given a suspended eight-month jail sentence for flying the drone over a New Zealand coaching session forward of the sport.

Assistant Jasime Mander was additionally despatched house, whereas Priestman withdrew herself from the sport towards New Zealand and was later suspended by Canada Soccer.

Like Priestman, Lombardi and Mander had been additionally suspended by FIFA from “any football-related activity for a period of one year”.

“The officials were each found responsible for offensive behaviour and violation of the principles of fair play,” world soccer’s governing physique stated.

The 38-year-old Briton Priestman was in command of the Canada staff that received gold in Tokyo in 2021, after they defeated Sweden on penalties within the ultimate.

Canada Soccer chief govt Kevin Blue had tried to persuade FIFA to not punish the staff, saying the gamers had not seen any footage produced by the drone.

“The players themselves have not been involved in any unethical behaviour,” Blue informed reporters on Friday.

“And frankly we ask FIFA to take that into consideration if contemplating any further sanctions. 

“Specifically we don’t really feel {that a} deduction of factors on this event can be truthful to our gamers.”

Canada’s players had insisted they were innocent of wrongdoing after their opening victory over the New Zealanders.

“There was a number of emotion, frustration and humiliation as a result of as a participant, it does not mirror our values and what we wish to signify as opponents on the Olympics,” defender Vanessa Gilles said.

“The Games signify truthful play. As Canadians, these should not our values or these of our nation. We should not cheats.”

Canadian Olympic Committee chief govt David Shoemaker stated individually on Friday that Canada’s victory on the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics may also have been stained by spying ways.

(This story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

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