Caption: Bev Priestman was appointed head coach of the Canadian nationwide group in 2020.
27 julio 2024
Canada’s ladies’s soccer group was docked six factors on the Olympics and coach Bev Priestman was suspended for a 12 months after a drone was used to spy on a rival group’s coaching classes.
FIFA introduced the sanctions on Saturday, which embrace a nice of 200,000 Swiss francs (about US$226,000) for the Canadian Soccer Affiliation (CSA), a day after England’s Priestman was dismissed as Canada’s head coach for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
CSA officers Joseph Lombardi and Jasmine Mander had been additionally suspended by FIFA for one 12 months.
FIFA, soccer’s governing physique, mentioned Crew Canada’s use of the drone was a “violation” of its rules.
“The officers had been discovered answerable for offensive behaviour and breaching the rules of honest play in relation to using drones by the CSA ladies’s consultant group within the context of the Olympic soccer match,” FIFA mentioned in an announcement.
Priestman has “voluntarily” stepped down from her teaching duties for Canada’s opening recreation in opposition to New Zealand after the nation’s Olympic Committee mentioned a drone had flown over her coaching session on Monday.
FIFA and the CSA have launched investigations, with the latter saying it was “extremely possible” the 38-year-old coach was conscious of the incident.
The CSA can attraction the choice to the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport, and in an announcement responding to the sanctions, its chief govt Kevin Blue and Canadian Olympic Committee CEO David Shoemaker mentioned an attraction was being thought of.
“We’re exploring choices to attraction on the idea that it’s excessively punitive in direction of our ladies’s nationwide group gamers, who weren’t concerned in any unethical behaviour,” Blue mentioned.
“The CSA has taken swift motion to droop the workers members concerned and can be continuing with a broad unbiased evaluate which can result in additional disciplinary motion,” it added.
Shoemaker mentioned: “We really feel horrible for the athletes on the Canadian ladies’s Olympic soccer group who, to our information, performed no position on this matter.”
Caption: Canada’s ladies’s soccer group received its opening match of the match in opposition to New Zealand 2-1 on Thursday.
In an announcement Wednesday, Priestman mentioned he took accountability for the actions of his colleagues after a scouting report submitted by Lombardi was despatched to Mander.
On Thursday, a French court docket mentioned Lombardi had been given an eight-month suspended jail sentence after pleading responsible to flying a drone in an city space with out a license.
The subsequent day, Shoemaker mentioned there “seems to be data that would taint” Canada’s victory in ladies’s soccer on the Tokyo Video games.
This adopted studies in Canadian media that drones had been utilized in earlier tournaments.
Assistant coach Andy Spence will take cost for the rest of the Video games, with the reigning Olympic champions’ subsequent match in opposition to France on Sunday.
Canada beat New Zealand of their opening recreation to earn three factors, however the FIFA ban leaves them at -3 in Group A, with video games in opposition to the host nation and Colombia nonetheless to return.
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