{"id":63441,"date":"2024-08-02T08:02:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T08:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=63441"},"modified":"2024-08-02T08:02:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T08:02:25","slug":"canadian-olympic-committee-explores-appealing-fifa-stripping-soccer-team-of-6-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=63441","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Olympic Committee explores appealing FIFA stripping soccer team of 6 points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hyUodSx2e6Q?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>FIFA has announced it will deduct six points from Canada&#8217;s national women&#8217;s soccer team at the Paris Olympics following this week&#8217;s drone soccer scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the points, the organization announced head coach Bev Priestman has been suspended from all soccer activities for one year and that the Canadian Soccer Federation will face a fine of $226,000.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement following the sanctions, Canada Soccer CEO Kevin Blue said Canada Soccer is disappointed with the impact of the decision on the athletes, and they are now exploring appeal options.<\/p>\n<p>Crystal Goomansingh explains.<\/p>\n<p>For more info, please go to https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/10647464\/canada-soccer-drone-spying-scandal-fifa\/<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http:\/\/bit.ly\/20fcXDc<br \/>\nLike Global News on Facebook HERE: http:\/\/bit.ly\/255GMJQ<br \/>\nFollow Global News on X HERE: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Toz8mt<br \/>\nFollow Global News on Instagram HERE: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2QZaZIB<\/p>\n<p>#GlobalNews #FIFA #Canada<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hyUodSx2e6Q\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA has announced it will deduct six points from Canada&#8217;s national women&#8217;s soccer team at the Paris Olympics following this week&#8217;s drone soccer scandal. Along with the points, the organization&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3167,"featured_media":63442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-how-to-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}