The Canadian ladies’s soccer workforce made headlines for all of the fallacious causes final week. Mere hours earlier than its opening Olympic sport towards New Zealand, Canada’s teaching employees was accused of utilizing a drone to spy on New Zealand’s pregame follow periods.
Recording a workforce with out its consent violates FIFA’s fair-play guidelines and France’s privateness legal guidelines, and the incident quickly exploded into controversy. Bev Priestman, the top coach of Canada’s ladies’s workforce, accepted a yearlong ban from the game.
Emails quickly surfaced between Priestman and her workers that implied drone spying was a typical — and even endorsed — follow for the Canadian males’s and girls’s soccer.
“It is one thing the analyst has all the time finished,” Priestman said to human assets in an electronic mail about an worker who was hesitant to make use of drones. “I do know there’s a complete operation on the lads’s aspect close to it.”