Meanwhile in Canada... Canada Soccer becomes embroiled in national shame
Canada's men's and women's soccer teams have relied on drones and spying for years, sources say
Coaching staff and contractors working with Canada’s men’s and women’s national soccer teams have been engaged for years in efforts to film the closed-door training sessions of their… pic.twitter.com/GuwijxTMNm
- TSN (@TSN_Sports) July 25, 2024
- A few days ago while training for the Olympics the New Zealand team reported that a drone was surveilling them while practicing
- Drone was revealed to belong to a member of the Canada women's soccer coaching team, Joseph Lombari
- Despite being called an "uncredited staffer" Joseph Lombari has deep ties to Canada soccer and worked with former Canada women's soccer coach John Herdman
- Lombari, assistant coach Jasmine Mander and coach Bev Priestman have all been sent home from the olympics
- New reporting reveals the team has been using drone surveillance for a decade
- Sources unsurprisingly say that drone surveillance occurs on the men's team as well
- Men's team is now coached by John Herdman, former coach of the Canada women's team who also suddenly started to have a miraculous turn around after Herdman's coaching began
- There have been previous accusations of drone surveillance under Herdman as well
- Lower level members of the coaching team claimed they are bullied into doing the surveillance: “In a couple of scenarios, people have been pushed and have been told, ‘You have to give 110 percent and this is part of the job so if you don’t feel comfortable with doing this, you do not have a place on the team’,” the source said. “It’s not something that’s talked about and it’s not something there are a lot of text messages about because of how sensitive this is. Some of the people who have had to do the filming or review the filming have said to a few staff members how uncomfortable it was for them.”
- FIFA and Canada Soccer are now both investigating
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This is really heartbreaking. I can't say enough how much I've loved watching the game take fire in this country and now it's all tainted and we're a bunch of dirty cheaters. Sorry New Zealand (and other countries). 😬
