Canadian Women Soccer Team Accused of using drones to spy on New Zealand practice

[sureLoss]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1816133839229427792

https://twitter.com/user/status/1816104623154880868

[CofR]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1816135469425365247

[Sr. Mints]

Totally embarrassing. I'm surprised the whole deemed didn't get the boot, and I would support that decision

[activeStick]

Yup, it's really too bad that on a day when our flag bearers should have been the headline, the selfish acts of 3 (?) took over and the focus for Team Canada was instead on the cheating. Disappointing. I don't however think the entire team should be punished. They didn't do anything.

[FireGilbert]

[Ped]

According to Rick Westhead at tsn it's been going on for years:


https://www.tsn.ca/canada-s-men-s-an...-say-1.2153674

Staff and contractors connected to the men’s national team have also filmed the closed training sessions of competitors, one of the sources told TSN, adding that Canada used a drone to record a U.S. training session before a Nov. 15, 2019, game in Florida. The U.S. won that game 4-1.
Two years later, Honduras stopped a training session in Toronto during World Cup qualifiers after someone spotted a drone overhead.
“I’d imagine there’s probably a lot of people in Canada that fly drones, I’m sure,” then-Canada coach John Herdman said at the time. “And when a big team like Honduras turn up I’m sure people are probably interested in what they’re doing when they come into our country. So I know for sure we won’t be heading into people’s countries too early because with drones these days, people can obviously capture footage. You’ve got to be really careful. So yeah, you got to be careful in CONCACAF. It’s a tricky place.”
Some staff and contractors were told the filming was part of their jobs and that they could lose their positions with the federation if they did not go along with the demands, one of the sources said in a series of interviews with TSN on Wednesday and Thursday.

[undercoverbrother]

Just another reason soccer sucks

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Well that's terrible. And stupid.

[Paulie Walnuts]

The coach has been removed for the Olympics

[MRCboicgy]

Originally Posted by FireGilbert

Spoiler: we are

[M*A*S*H 4077]

Originally Posted by Ped

According to Rick Westhead at tsn it's been going on for years:


https://www.tsn.ca/canada-s-men-s-an...-say-1.2153674

Yep this makes sense. Herdman brought it in

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Shameful. If I was Sweden I’d be calling for their gold medal to be stripped.

[Brendone]

What were they expecting to find? “Look at that, their top secret strategy seems to be to pass from center to half, and back to center for 90 minutes. Pure genius!”

[activeStick]

Very shameful.

[EldrickOnIce]

What's shameful is sending home coach as if you just discovered this atrocity the other day. Clearly Canada soccer knows this has been going on for years. Who cares. If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying. Canada seems to me to be the nice guy that always gets cheated on. It is nice to know we can play the ####### and mess things up a bit tryinng to win. Play on

[Ba'alzamon]

Originally Posted by Brendone

What were they expecting to find? “Look at that, their top secret strategy seems to be to pass from center to half, and back to center for 90 minutes. Pure genius!”

[powderjunkie]

There is no way the head coach didn't know. The risk vs reward ratio here also seems pretty poor.

[tony-soprano]

How’s this different from watching tape to study your opponent?

[troutman]

Bill: Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with other team's signals - we did.
[winks at Goodell]

Bill: But you can't hold a whole team responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the entire NFL? And if the whole NFL is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our sporting institutions in general? I put it to you, Goodell - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!

[CaptainCrunch]

I do agree that Canada should have its win overturned against New Zealand.



Cheating's cheating.