Issues have gone from dangerous to worse for defending gold medalist Workforce Canada at this summer season’s Olympics. Regardless of successful its first match 2-1 on Thursday, the ladies’s soccer staff is engulfed in scandal.
On Monday, French police caught Canada girls’s soccer staff analyst Joseph Lombardi retrieve a drone that spied on opening-match opponent New Zealand. Lombardi later admitted guilt and is serving an eight-year suspended sentence for “sustaining an unmanned plane over a prohibited space.”
Sources with firsthand data advised TSN Thursday that the staff has been doing this for years, citing incidents again to 2019. A Canada Soccer contractor alleges that refusing to movie opponent’s trainings bought them changed forward of the 2023 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup.
Monday’s incident and these allegations prompted a stiff response from FIFA on Saturday, the day earlier than Canada’s second Olympic group-stage match versus host France.
